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...fresh embryo transfers, this study also considered the cumulative success rate for all embryos created and implanted from a single harvesting of eggs - including those that had been frozen. Researchers found that the total pregnancy rate per egg retrieval was higher when embryos were implanted individually. For each "ovum pickup," the overall pregnancy rate was 38% among women who had elective single-embryo transfers, and 33% among those who had more than one embryo implanted...
...sporty 4-seat roadster into a street monster and track regular. Mustang had the name; but Camaro had the horses. Like many of Detroit's muscle cars, though, Camaro was doomed by paunchier styling and performance over the years, and the car's blue-collar fans drifted away to pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles. Slow sales doomed...
...purhase of 6,000 or more of such lighter, more mobile transport called MRAP-ATVs (the initial-loving military's monikker for "Mine Resistant Ambush Protection All Terrain Vehicles"). The vehicles "will have a smaller turn radius and be capable of keeping up with some of the pickup trucks [run by insurgents] they may be chasing," says Gen. Robert Lennox, the U.S. Army's assistant deputy chief of staff for operations. The specifics required by the Army and the Marines are spelled out in the request for bids: blas-resistant, off-road vehicles that drive 65 mph, have 16 inches...
...went to the gym last weekend for a pickup game of basketball, or maybe mistakenly showed up for an intramural volleyball game, you might have been surprised to find hundreds of high heeled women in flashy makeup and men dressed to the nines, instead of a few sweaty students in gym shorts. Why this dramatic change in scenery? The 18th Annual Harvard Ballroom Invitational, which converted the fourth floor of the Malkin Athletic Center into a sea of sequins and bright colors as dancers from all over the country took to the gymnasium floor. According to Masha Maystrovskaya...
...some drugs, it's that it appears to lack the one-two punch of many other stimulants. Amphetamines, for example, don't just block the cleanup function of the dopamine transporters but actually boost overall dopamine output at the same time. That's a little like discontinuing your trash pickup at the same time you double the amount you're throwing away. Modafinil stops at step one - canceling the garbage trucks...