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...ranging from $160-200. Some golf shoes in the market cost even more, but that's still a steep price during down times. Plus, golf is a crowded marketplace; in the U.S., for example, Nike owns 56% of the market. With Tiger Woods returning to the course, in his usual Swoosh-clad clothes, an upstart like GEOX is unlikely to make a serious dent. "It's not like the industry is crying out for a new brand or a new idea," says Powell. "It will be a very difficult challenge for GEOX...
...literally mean "I am a jelly-filled doughnut." Some reports say the statement wasn't mocked in Berlin at the time, but this hardly matters. In popular memory, Kennedy committed an embarrassing gaffe, something presidents try hard not to do while abroad, where they operate under more scrutiny than usual...
...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 if not better in most of the groups...
...squad’s overall performance was especially impressive considering UCLA is the nation’s top-ranked team, and Berkeley and Stanford are both within the top 25. In fact, although it was not officially a team event, if the tournament had been scored in the usual team format, the Crimson would have placed second, merely two strokes behind UCLA. Senior Emily Balmert led the way for Harvard, shooting a two-over 74, good for a tie for third place. Compiling a solid scorecard of two birdies, two bogeys, and one double bogey, Balmert was only one stroke...
...Sarkozy also plans to visit Brazzaville, capital of the neighboring Republic of Congo, and Niger, in search of business opportunities for French companies. French commentators have noted how such business-as-usual tightness with African cronies, whose track record on democracy and human rights often leaves much to be desired, contrasts with Sarkozy's earlier pledges to break with Paris' traditional Françafrique policy of turning a blind eye to authoritarianism and corruption to maintain healthy relations with stable African allies. (See pictures of the Pope's recent visit to Africa...