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Rewriting basic biology was the last thing on Tilly's mind when he and his colleagues began their research. They were interested in prolonging fertility, but as experts in cell death, or apoptosis, they were looking for ways to keep the limited supply of eggs limping along longer. "We assumed the dogma was correct," he says. Indeed, they found that the egg cells in adult-mouse ovaries are constantly dying off--but at a remarkable rate of up to 1,200 a day, or about a third of the total. "By the existing dogma," says Tilly, "they shouldn't last...
Psychologist Daphne de Marneffe speaks to these private joys in a new book, Maternal Desire (Little Brown). De Marneffe argues that feminists and American society at large have ignored the basic urge that most mothers feel to spend meaningful time with their children. She decries the rushed fragments of quality time doled out by working moms trying to do it all. She writes, "Anyone who has tried to 'fit everything in' can attest to how excruciating the five-minute wait at the supermarket checkout line becomes, let alone a child's slow-motion attempt to tie her own shoes when...
...ahead in Switzerland this week despite Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash's announcement that he will not participate. Denktash, who is opposed to the U.N. plan on which the discussions are based, said he did not believe that agreement could be reached on basic issues. Pro-unification Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Talat will attend the summit in Denktash's place. Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis and Turkey 's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will join the talks at a later stage. Tests Negative RWANDA The U.N. said initial tests on a flight recorder it had locked away in a filing...
...Girls is merely an intellectual discourse rather than character-based theater. She says that during her first reading, she was “struck by the simultaneously huge issues of politics and culture and gender that were going on in the play while at the same time, the basic human relationships were not compromised...
...reaction is not in any way atypical. Because while the consequences of missing out on ten years of “Cheers” reruns may have done little to affect me at a basic functional level, they have had far-reaching and undeniable significance on my social interactions. You’d be surprised how often TV shows come up in everyday conversation—and not just the simple water-cooler conversation about which Survivor got kicked off last night. We are required on a daily basis to draw from a vast store of television lore. The third...