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...California, Berkeley. He won a Nobel prize in 1997 for his work cooling atoms with laser lights. He was confirmed for his cabinet post by the U.S. Senate in January. Chu had previously served as a head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and as a professor at Stanford and Berkeley The Harvard Alumni Association chooses the speaker. —Check TheCrimson.com for updates throughout...
...findings come from an imaginative experiment conducted by a group of business professors from Stanford, Brigham Young and Northwestern universities. The investigators first recruited 200 student volunteers from various fraternity and sorority houses and divided them into 50 same-sex, four-person teams. The teams were brought in two at a time and given 20 minutes to solve an imaginary murder mystery, relying on made-up evidence and detective interviews. One of the suspects in the mystery was indeed guilty, which meant that the test did have a right answer...
...Indeed, some past studies have shown the benefit of multiple-embryo transfer. "When you're just reporting pregnancy rate per transfer, some studies have shown better results in transferring two versus one," says Dr. Lynn Marie Westphal, a fertility specialist and director of women's health at Stanford University School of Medicine...
...such data may not always account for the specific factors that help determine success rates, such as the age of the patient and the quality of the embryos. At Stanford's fertility clinic, where doctors can carefully select high-quality embryos by growing them in the lab for five days, until the blastocyst stage, instead of the more usual three days, success rates have been on par, if not higher among single transfers, says Westphal. "When I look at our data, in patients with really good blastocysts, the pregnancy rates were comparable," Westphal says. "The singles were just as good...
Just as important, WPS plans to market the league beyond the ponytail posse, its core fan base of tween and pre-tween girls. "The WUSA was more aspirational for young girls," says Antonucci, a former Yahoo! executive and Stanford soccer player who has worked on the league's relaunch for more than four years. "What we're doing is socially important, but it has to be broader than that." In Boston, for example, the players have headed out to city bars to play pool with twenty-somethings and connect with young adult fans. On Sunday the Chicago Red Stars will...