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...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collects national statistics on success rates for assisted reproductive technology, but that data, too, is broken down by individual cycles of IVF; the data in the new study calculated the overall likelihood of a live birth during the entire course of treatment - up to six cycles of IVF. The study also incorporated data for all patients who sought treatment at the Massachusetts center, regardless of age or potential for pregnancy complications. In addition, the data accounted for success rates of IVF using frozen embryos; other analyses typically consider only "fresh" embryo...
...Obama team, meanwhile, seems to have learned from Bush about dealing with the press. During the campaign, Obama, like Bush, exercised tight message control, limited press availability and disregarded old-media courtship rituals. Incoming press secretary Robert Gibbs pointedly told the New York Times Magazine that Obama never sat down with the Washington Post editorial board. "You could go to Cedar Rapids and Waterloo [Iowa] and understand that people aren't reading the Washington Post...
...also love your strategy of choosing good Onion articles, taking out words at random, and filling them in like Mad Libs.College Events Board Apology Letter Team: Although members of the CEB seem to only commit five hours a semester to ruining life at Harvard, we assume your damage control is a much greater time commitment, and cannot accept your offer at this time.Our Queen Drew Faust’s Christmas Cards: By bearing Christmas cheer, we can change Harvard from a “republic of Suffering” to a “creation of confederate nationalism?...
...this case, the landing and quick response of rescuers appear to have worked in the favor of survivors. Says Weiner: "It seemed like the plane was really in control as it came into the river. It was almost as if the river was like the runway. It was approaching it like it was a runway until it hit the water, and then you didn't know what to expect. Thank God it stayed in one piece and just slid along its belly." At a press conference soon after the incident, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that the plane...
...become a critical post for any U.S. government official. The Soviet Union had collapsed, the Cold War was over, and there was great interest in the alternative Asian economic models that seemed to be performing better than the U.S.'s. Bilateral-trade issues had suddenly become what arms-control talks had been to the Cold War. Geithner made his bones in the U.S. Treasury by helping negotiate a comprehensive deal with Japan that, against all expectations, opened Tokyo's financial-services sector to foreign companies for the first time...