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...time for her to step back and appraise -- what else? -- herself. The result is Girlie Show, an essay in retro show biz. As another star with some mileage on her said in Sunset Blvd., ''Not a comeback, a return.'' The show is a return to the womb of popular culture: a calculated peek at American innocence. The proscenium stage is fronted with red drapery suitable for a Louisiana bordello; the title promises and delivers burlesque. But burlesque in the older sense of parody, travesty, impudent fun. There is humid sexuality at the start of the two-hour extravaganza (topless acrobat...
...couple of decades now, the stars of big movies have been trending younger, until it seemed that the next generation of the Hollywood élite would emerge not from high schools but from the womb. This summer, though, has brought good news for geriatric actors--those over 30. Harrison Ford, who at 66 is, in movie years, practically a sequoia, looked at least as vigorous as the Indiana Jones film he headlined. Comic-book epics also have middle-aged men in lead roles: Robert Downey Jr., 43, in Iron Man and 58-year-old Ron Perlman in Hellboy...
...that stop dividing and a woman's level of the follicle-stimulating hormone. What surprised the study's authors was that these measures appeared to be more relevant to establishing a pregnancy than embryo quality - that is, how many of a couple's "good" embryos are transplanted to the womb...
...four factors, we can predict pregnancy with an accuracy of 70%," says Dr. Mylene Yao, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford and lead author of the study. "And it's extremely interesting that the four factors do not actually relate to the embryos that are transferred to the womb. So while it's still important to identify the best embryos for transfer, this suggests that we shouldn't neglect all the other embryos and the information that we can extract from them...
...editors wrote. “This year we turn back to the secondary schools where are sown the problems that universities like Harvard later fall heir to, through no fault of their own. We will not stop there you may be sure. Tomorrow, kindergarten; the next day, the womb...