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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Obama Administration's surge in Afghanistan needs to be short and sweet and avoid stepping on Pashtun toes. It absolutely must not be the first stage of creating an Afghanistan of our dreams, or else it will most certainly become the one of our nightmares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avoiding a Quagmire in Afghanistan | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

...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 in Jerusalem in the early 1970s. It found a significant 30-year increase in various cancers among women who underwent fertility treatments, with the highest risk being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Egg Donations Mount, So Do Health Concerns | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...serious short-term risks of egg donation are much better understood: ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, ovarian torsion or ruptured ovarian cysts. In late 2008, a study of 587 egg donors who underwent a total of 973 cycles of ovarian stimulation at a single clinic in New York City found serious complications in 0.7% of the cycles and minor complications severe enough to prompt donors to seek medical attention in 8.5% of the cycles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Egg Donations Mount, So Do Health Concerns | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...updates, and photos of red Solo cups are now fair game. If you reject, they will be crushed and guilt-trip you, claiming that they are “hip” and can handle it. If you put them on limited profile, chances are good that in the short term they will have no idea what limited profile is and will be quite pleased, but before long they’re sure to catch...

Author: By Anna E. Boch | Title: Confirm or Ignore? | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...University’s chief financial officer, the debt was issued “to manage our risk with previously issued variable rate notes [and] to enhance our cash position and our flexibility.” The variable-rate notes had allowed lenders to recall their principal on short notice, which could potentially drain the University’s cash holdings.“We are confident that we issued our debt quite competitively given market conditions at the time,” Shore said.But the Forbes story suggested that Harvard’s liquidity position was more precarious than...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Debt Sales Draw Mixed Reactions | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

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