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...Veleva, one of the study's authors and a faculty member of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Finland's University of Oulu. The findings reflect what U.S. fertility doctors say they are increasingly seeing in their own practices. (Read "Building a Better Baby: A New In Vitro Test...
...playing back home,” Harvard coach David Fish ’72 said. “Every single guy contributed a win out here, in tough company.”Weakened by the absence of seniors Sasha Ermakov and co-captain Chris Clayton, the trip posed a test of Harvard’s strength in depth—a test, in spite of losses, that proved encouraging.“Overall, it was great,” sophomore Alexei Chijoff-Evans said. “We weren’t playing at full strength, so I think...
...Glasses. We're almost 60 years into the era of showing 3-D in theaters, and you still have to take an eye test to see the movies. Putting on glasses, even the Ray-Ban type now handed out in theaters, does not remove barriers to the appreciation of movies (as director Peter Jackson insists); it is a barrier. Imagine the popular resistance to the first talkies if audiences had to don headsets to hear Al Jolson sing "Swanee." What would the odds on the success of three-strip Technicolor have been if people had to wear specs...
...very wrong. Trying to establish the identity of a burned corpse found in 2002, they were re-examining the fingerprints of a male asylum seeker taken from his asylum application made many years earlier. The fingerprints contained the Phantom's female DNA. Impossible, they thought, so they repeated the test with a different cotton swab - and this time found no trace of the Phantom...
...shiny, seemingly perfect evidence of DNA traces that they sometimes ignore the whole picture. DNA evidence on a crime scene says nothing about how it got there. There is good reason for not permitting convictions on the basis of DNA circumstantial evidence alone." (See the retail DNA test...