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...follow through and go through the considerable effort of donating oocytes [egg cells] for research. I would characterize the number of oocytes she donated as a handful. And the results we had from those very few initial experiments were encouraging, but there's no sign of additional donors in sight...
...Mulder has his own mission: to see if Father Joe's second sight can locate Mulder's sister Samantha, purportedly abducted by aliens when a child and never seen again. (Actually, we know from the series' final episode that the girl died in 1987, after undergoing experiments that produced enough Samanthas to keep Mulder addled for years.) And Scully has reasons to get back to her day job, as a surgeon at Our Lady of Sorrows Hospital. She hopes to find a treatment for a boy whose cancer the hospital authorities think is incurable. (X-philes will recall that...
...married and move into his place. The catch is that each of the newlyweds has a wayward, layabout son who's near 40: Dale Doback (Reilly) and Brennan Huff (Ferrell). Seemingly deficient in intelligence, and lacking the most rudimentary of social skills, Dale and Brennan feel hate at first sight as quickly as their parents found love. Their resentment comes from territorial rivalry, but even more the fear that their comfortable situation, of being the sole object of a parent's pampering, is over right now. Learn to share - that's the implicit command. Play well with others. Two words...
...wartime Sarajevo, the wellspring of genocide was easy to spot. Running through the middle of the proudly multicultural city, between apartment buildings and along avenues, were sight lines from the Serb-held side of town. Stepping into them meant death for thousands of innocents at the hands of snipers who had embraced the anti-Muslim ethnic cleansing orchestrated by their leader, Radovan Karadzic...
...recognize evil in disguise amid a peaceful, thriving metropolis? On the run for over a decade and living in plain sight for several years in Belgrade until his arrest on July 21, Karadzic could hardly have appeared more benign. Wearing a long white beard and a ponytail, he practiced alternative medicine and lectured occasionally on Orthodox Christian meditation under the name Dr. Dragan Dabic...