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...marched together, representing 204 republics, theocracies, city-states, protectorates and even a certain island that competes under the name of Chinese Taipei. Three Olympic debutantes appeared in Beijing: Montenegro, the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu, a South Pacific nation whose very existence is threatened by global warming. China's flagbearer Yao Ming, at 2.29 m (7 ft. 6 in.) the Games' tallest Olympian, loped along the same path as 1.43 m (4 ft. 8 in.) American gymnast Shawn Johnson. Four athletes from Iraq, which in July had been banned briefly from the Games because of a tiff with the International Olympic...
...don’t stall, but they follow us. “Bu yao,” I say, which means “do not want.” Sometimes that stops them...
...Yao notes that doctors in IVF clinics necessarily focus their attention on good embryos, selecting those that appear to be growing more vigorously than others, then choosing the most robust from that collection for implantation. But her study hints that taking into account the quality of the entire batch of embryos a couple produces might give doctors and their patients a better idea of their chances with IVF. Indirectly, says Yao, the four factors reflect all the other elements that play a role in a couple's fertility, including a woman's age and her medical history...
While fertility specialists have long known about these factors and their role in predicting IVF success, Yao and her team have set out to determine which ones matter most - and how each factor affects the others in individual cases. For instance, doctors know that older women in general have a more difficult time conceiving. But Yao believes it should be possible to better predict whether a woman in her 40s will get pregnant through IVF based on the overall quality of the embryos she and her partner produce. Doctors already use their own algorithms for determining a couple's chances...
...Yao's team is already planning to expand their study to analyze how well these four variables will be able to predict live births. If the factors prove predictive, they could provide infertile couples with some much-needed guidance in making a very difficult decision...