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...some degree, that bias is rooted in biology. Women are born with as many eggs as they'll ever have - about a million. That number steadily diminishes, and "the best eggs are ovulated first," Behr says. The ones that remain - after age 35 or so, on average - are vulnerable to toxins, radiation and other insults that may degrade their quality and viability...
...Nagl noted that, traditionally, commanders want as many troops as they can get, and that General Petraeus would be expected to "slow-roll the withdrawal" if he were to remain in charge of Iraq only. "But given that he knows that he is going to assume responsibility for Afghanistan as well, it indicates the gains in Iraq really are fragile and this is probably a prudent decision." But Nagl, now with the Center for a New American Security in Washington, is still puzzled by the decision. "I would not say we are winning the war in Afghanistan...
...court didn't buy that argument, ruling that Samak and his entire cabinet must resign. "The defendant has violated Article 267 of the constitution, and his position as prime minister has ended," the head of the nine-judge panel, Chat Chonlaworn, declared, adding that the cabinet should remain as a caretaker for 30 days until a new p.m. takes office...
Relations between Alice and her mother-in-law remain frosty for a decade, as Charlie--after an unsuccessful run for Congress--slips into alcoholism and idly watching ball games and pitying himself as he putters around the family meatpacking business. When Alice finally decides she's had enough and uses her mother's home as the halfway house to a formal separation, Maj calls and drops a bomb: the family had been shocked that someone as refined as Alice had chosen Charlie in the first place. "[H]e was a 31-year-old wastrel, making that preposterous congressional...
...India STILL STRANDED Rescue workers estimate that half a million people remain stranded almost two weeks after monsoon rains caused the worst flooding in northern India in nearly 50 years. Government and humanitarian agencies are struggling to feed the hundreds of thousands of evacuees, especially those in Bihar, above, the country's most populated and poverty-stricken state...