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...bring that hope one step closer to reality by opening the first for-profit egg-freezing operation in the country. "It's like an insurance policy," says Dr. Thomas Kim, medical director of the CHA Fertility Center, which wants to start freezing the eggs of women ages 35 and younger beginning this fall for about $8,000. "If they are willing to do it, we are happy to give them the service...
...even ice cream gets boring after a while, so Susie turns her attention back to earth. She watches as the shock waves of her death spread slow-motion havoc among her family and friends--her brave but vulnerable dad, her precocious younger sister, her bewildered classmates, the boy she had a crush on. She watches dispassionately as her killer--the fastidious, emotionally damaged Mr. Harvey--carefully disperses her body parts (the hunt for Mr. Harvey gives the book a fierce narrative energy). She watches her mother's slow, grieving slide into adultery with a dry-eyed pity that's heartbreaking...
...founder of the Hyundai conglomerate, Chung would bring more to the table than just cool sports scars. Until 1988, he successfully ran Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's biggest shipbuilder?which gives him credibility among conservative voters who want a financially savvy candidate. With younger voters, Chung can position himself as a fresh face who has steered clear of Seoul's merry-go-round of political corruption. "Economically he emphasizes growth, politically he pushes reform," says Cho Ki Suk, an expert on Korean politics at Seoul's Ewha University. "If he persuades people he can do both...
...There's another, ancillary population that could be affected by this ruling - defendants under the age of 16. "This decision provides a very easy segue for defense attorneys to argue that anyone younger than 16 is not functioning at full adult capacity," Belsky says, and therefore they are, by definition, mentally challenged. That defense, predicts Belsky, is going to be tough to pull off - but that won't stop defense attorneys from trying...
...diet and spirituality. These efforts result in short-lived successes, with the Beauchards leading increasingly isolated lives and Jean-Christofe sinking deeper into anger and illness. By the end of book one the author's parents are "lost" amid the many dead-end, hocus-pocus cures, Florence the younger sister has attempted suicide, and the author has locked himself inside the armor of a twelve-year-old cynic...