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...Stephanie Yarber, who received a diagnosis of premature ovarian failure at age 14, conceiving children the old-fashioned way was a life's wish. In 2003, after several unsuccessful - and costly - courses of in vitro fertilization (IVF) using her identical-twin sister's donated eggs, Yarber began looking into other options. There was adoption, of course. But there was also a riskier experimental alternative: ovarian transplantation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hope to Prolong Fertility: Ovarian Transplants | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...Silber, prompted by success with cortical-tissue transplants, decided to try transplanting a whole ovary. He performed the first successful such transplant between a set of 38-year-old identical twins in January 2007. A few months after surgery, the infertile twin got her period for the first time in more than two decades. Less than a year later, she was pregnant. Last November, she gave birth to a healthy baby girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hope to Prolong Fertility: Ovarian Transplants | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...meet.Jones followed his performance in the relay with a stellar personal best swim in the 100-meter butterfly on Saturday. The senior finished third in 1:43.24, breaking the previous meet record of 1:44.36 and making an NCAA “B” cut. Jones’ twin brother Dan followed suit, finishing fifth in 1:45.67 for his second NCAA ‘B’ cut time for the day.“I was very pleased with my race,” Bill Jones said. “It was a really, really fast event...

Author: By Jessica L. Flakne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Settles for Second | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...Iraq's brutal war. After the obligatory four-month mourning period dictated by Islamic Shari'a law, Atoor's mother and two brothers made it clear that they intended to sell her to a brothel close to their home in western Baghdad, just as they had sold her older twin sisters. Frightened, she told a friend in the police force to raid her home and the nearby brothel. His unit did, and Atoor spent the next two years in prison. She was not charged with anything, but that's how long it took for her to come before a judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Unspeakable Crime: Mothers Pimping Daughters | 3/7/2009 | See Source »

...dozen visitors. The bedroom has yet another giant screen that swings out from the wall - very important if you are going to watch a game from the whirlpool tub in the bathroom, where, once again, neutrals predominate. There's a large walk-in shower and a thoughtfully designed twin-sink vanity that can lodge every health and beauty product that any self-respecting woman would haul to Las Vegas. (See the five best places to travel in a recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stick It to the Recession: Wynn's Vegas Encore | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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