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...three if a woman is over 40. Sweden and Belgium allow only one. Many lawmakers are driven less by moral than medical concerns, for the health of mother and baby and the costs associated with premature and multiple births. Professional associations in the U.S. also favor limits but stress the need to treat each case individually; they recommend a maximum of five embryos implanted in a woman over...
...Interpol officials say they encourage countries to send detailed data about wanted citizens in order to avoid such mistakes, and they stress that its constitutional rules allow for strict independent oversight of its activities and finances. Yet Western governments - typically with plenty of money to invest in their own national police and intelligence services - often prefer to keep tight control of their data rather than share it with Interpol, not least because its members include countries with which they have tense relationships, such as Cuba and Syria. "The irony is that countries which Interpol would like to cooperate most with...
...romantic involvement with their students makes them liable for formal action against them.” Students desperate for a loophole could point to the fact that this rule refers only to your own academic instructor, but test the waters at your own risk—the Guidelines stress that such relationships are always “asymmetric in nature” and should be avoided. 2) Proctors: also a no-no...at least for freshmen. “Proctors can provide social and academic advising, becoming a source of strength and support for first years,” says...
...Kearney, his psychiatrist and only regular doctor, barely once a month. Their first visit was on May 30, 2007, nearly two months after he arrived at Fort Knox. "Alert and smiles throughout the interview, is anxious," Kearney typed into Cassidy's file. "He was under fire and under constant stress and was mortared frequently." Kearney prescribed Valium and another medication in addition to the other drugs the soldier was already taking...
...named after the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher who was the first to undergo it, used to be limited to players in their 20s and older, but it is now performed on kids as young as 12--not surprising if they started pitching excessively at age 8 or 9. Similarly, stress fractures in the backs of middle-school football and soccer players have nearly doubled over the past decade as a result of overtraining...