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...studies have also shown the benefits of using elective single-embryo transfer to reduce multiple births, and the technique has become standard in several European countries, there is elsewhere a persistent belief that fewer embryo transfers will yield fewer pregnancies. The idea that more is better is difficult to shake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IVF Study: Two Embryos No Better Than One | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...Crimson golfers placed within the top eight, and four within the top twelve. “It was a really successful day,” coach Kevin Rhoads said. “All the other teams can play through the wintertime, and we’re trying to shake off rust...to be as sharp, at least for a day, as some of those other schools is very encouraging.” The squad’s overall performance was especially impressive considering UCLA is the nation’s top-ranked team, and Berkeley and Stanford are both within...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Excels in Desert Classic | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

...once we get to the actual buying of what Treasury is gingerly calling "legacy assets" (I'm hoping for a public-service ad campaign with the slogan "It's not toxic, it's a legacy"), things may shake out much differently from what Wall Street hopes and Krugman & Co. fear. Both sides in the debate seem to expect that the asset purchases will provide nothing but benefits to the banks that sell. That's not a safe assumption. We don't yet know what private investors will be willing to pay for those once-thought-to-be-valuable legacies. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Separating Toxic Assets from Legacy Assets | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

Head injuries are very common--on the order of 1.5 million in the U.S. last year. Most people shake them off, but many don't. The signs of a serious hit are a headache that gets worse, confusion, disorientation and vomiting. Slurred speech, sleepiness, a droopy eye and clumsiness are also signals, as is any kind of amnesia. And the signs may not be obvious. "They gradually progress," says Dr. Carmelo Graffagnino, director of the neuroscience critical-care unit at Duke University. "Then suddenly it gets to the critical point that a person can't be woken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dealing with Brain Injuries | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

...true focus of the novel centers around the emotional vagaries of Wright’s women.As Virgil wrote, “varium et mutabile semper femina,” or, “Woman is ever fickle and changing.” Boyle appears to be unable to shake his fascination with Maude Miriam Noel Wright, Wright’s third great love and second wife. Maude aggrandizes herself as the erstwhile “Belle of Memphis,” and by the time she meets Wright, her self-obsession has collapsed into pure solipsism, not without the help...

Author: By Catherine A Morris, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Novel Reveals Wright's 'Women' | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

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