Word: protocols
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...there have been no long-term medical studies of donors. But fertility doctors agree that a lot can be gleaned from the smattering of studies of long-term risks for infertility patients, who receive the same protocol for ovarian stimulation and retrieval as donors. The primary health concern is cancer, and studies assessing cancer rates among infertility patients have drawn conflicting results. Many such studies are hobbled by small sample groups, or are too short term. The most extensive study to date, published in February in the American Journal of Epidemiology, used historical data from women who gave birth...
...traditions related to the moment of random selection are young. The Quad boat tradition’s popularity helps encourage a sense of community among freshmen and the greater undergraduate community. The university, with so many cogs to keep functioning, can at times seem more concerned with minutiae and protocol than with undergraduate welfare. We urge the university to look kindly upon such student-driven institutions instead of casting them down. At the same time, students must be reasonable themselves with their constructions. The birth of any tradition comes with growing pains and the codification of what is considered acceptable...
...third trigger: the departure of Finance Minister Trevor Manuel. When Manuel, 53, resigned on Sept. 23 last year, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange fell 4% in minutes. Actually, Manuel wasn't going anywhere. President Thabo Mbeki had been ousted in an internal party coup a few days earlier and protocol demanded Manuel step down before being reappointed by Mbeki's successor. When that was explained, the markets recovered quickly...
...Signed the Kyoto Protocol on his first day in office, fulfilling a campaign pledge and leaving the United States as the only developed nation not to ratify the climate change pact...
...could it be that we're one of the only two developed countries in the world to refuse to ratify the Kyoto Protocol? I don't understand. I just don't get it." - To then-Prime Minister John Howard, whome he later defeated, during a televised debate. (BBC, October...