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...woman hoping to give birth to a softball team. Embryos can be bought and sold and cloned and even implanted in a monkey's womb because this is the most private of industries, a $4 billion business that largely polices itself. Liberals worry about egg selling and womb rental, about poor women being exploited to help rich women have children--but they don't want to push too hard, because reproductive freedom is a hallowed right. Conservatives struggle to explain why they oppose using leftover frozen embryos for stem-cell research but don't oppose their creation in the first...
...week, Community Builders, Inc.—which has led negotiations with Harvard on behalf of Charlesview since 2004—filed a project notification form with the city. In addition to relocating the existing 213 Charlesview units to a 6.9-acre plot, the proposal outlines 69 additional affordable rental units and up to 118 home ownership units. Once the apartments are relocated, the University will have access to the five-acre plot near Harvard Business School on which the low-cost complex currently reside. An arts and culture complex is one of the ideas that has been put forth...
...strange linen corset. The next morning, my mom and I slept in until 10:00 a.m. After we had both meandered down to the kitchen, we decided that it would be a shame to let what was left of the pizza to go to waste. We located the other rental (Never Been Kissed—when you live in a family with two men, the movie of choice is generally not a chick-flick, so my mom and I were determined to take advantage of the guys’ absence) and resettled on the couch for what began...
...effort,” he said. “Just trying to get information out there about how to go about finding cheaper textbooks, I think that’s very important.” Staff added that he believed that a proposal in the bill to create textbook rental programs would make “a huge difference” in how students make their purchases. Coop President Jerry P. Murphy ’73 and other administrators at the bookstore did not respond to repeated requests for comment. The proposed bill falls in a pattern of legislation aimed...
...firm KPMG, and they poured around $917 million into its tax system in 2006 alone. The central government lets foreigners negotiate how much tax they pay directly with whichever of the country's 26 cantons they move to; an annual lump sum is calculated, based on five times the rental value of the expat's Swiss home. Rates average around 30%, but vary among cantons - in Geneva, taxes are on the higher side, while in less crowded cantons like Zug (an increasingly popular spot for foreign hedge-fund managers) they can be less than 15%. For good measure, there...