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...trace the struggle between hope and biology back to Genesis, when Abraham and Sarah gave thanks for the miracle that brought them their son in old age. "She was the first infertile woman," notes Zev Rosenwaks, the director of New York Presbyterian Hospital's infertility program. "It was so improbable that an allegedly menopausal woman could have a baby that her firstborn was named Isaac, which means 'to laugh.'" The miracle stories have fed the hope ever since, but so does wishful thinking. "It's tremendously comforting for a 34- or 36-year-old professional woman to imagine that...
...syndrome, most patients treated at Genetics & IVF want to even out their families--a life-style rather than a medical decision. The Fairfax clinic has been willing to help, but such a trend doesn't sit well with some other practitioners. "Our view at the moment," says Dr. Zev Rosenwaks, director of the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at Cornell Medical Center in New York City, "is that these techniques should be used for medical indications, not family balancing...
...playing God is an unfair description of assisted reproduction, says Dr. Zev Rosenwaks, director of the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center. "All of us in medicine are facilitators, trying, essentially, to put things back to the way they work in nature," he says...
...intertwining story lines hardly accommodate a summary. Donny Ribkin, the reptilian agent, longs for his ex-wife, who has taken up with a female novelist--his love for her continues "to grow, like nails on a corpse"; Zev Turtletaub, a brutalizing, gay producer, fantastically successful, is developing a modern adaptation of Gogol's Dead Souls to star Alec Baldwin; casting director Sara Radisson-Stein gives birth to a son who is blind, and she writes moving letters to him ("I'm sitting beside you as I write; the faintest light falls upon your marzipan cheek. You're the sweetest plum...
...million registered automobiles, backed away from passing legislation that would require 2% of all cars sold in the state to be electrically powered within two years. Instead, the state's Air Resources Board proposed giving car manufacturers more time to come up with a marketable "zero emission vehicle" (ZEV). Under the new schedule, 10% of all cars sold in California will be electrically powered...