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Another possible limitation of the study, the authors say, is the fact that all patients seeking infertility treatment in the state of Massachusetts are at least partially reimbursed by their health-insurance carriers, by law. IVF can cost up to $10,000 or more per cycle, and the study group at the Massachusetts clinic likely included many patients less deterred by financial issues than women in the general population, possibly distorting the data. Malizia, who now serves as a reproductive endocrinologist at Alabama Fertility Specialists in Birmingham, Ala., suggests, however, that the live-birth rates of her study group skewed...
...financial incentive outweighs the alternatives. Paying for avoided deforestation can best be achieved by rewarding sustainable forestry. This adds further economic incentive (the price of the timber) to the pot and ensures the preservation of the resource, providing jobs and income. A global price of carbon internalized into the cost of goods and services will further discriminate in favor of sustainably grown wood. John White, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, TIMBER TRADE FEDERATION, LONDON
Another underutilized energy-efficiency tip: for new construction, simply orienting buildings correctly and optimizing window locations can cut energy use by a quarter or more. These are savings from Day One--and at no extra cost. Dave Deppen, SAN RAFAEL, CALIF...
...colleague of theirs. Geithner, moreover, has far better political fingertips. "He's the guy who'd say to Larry, 'Look, maybe you don't want to say that men are smarter than women in just this way. You might be misunderstood,' " this colleague says, referring to the imbroglio that cost Summers his job as president of Harvard...
...times too high.” However in an article posted at TechNewsWorld.com on Monday, Yood said that Google recognizes its environmental impact.“There’s an acknowledgment that Google is using energy, and on the business front it makes sense to get this energy cost as low as possible.” Wissner-Gross also repudiated the tea-kettle numbers used in the article. “I have no idea where they got those statistics,” Wissner-Gross said to the information technology Web site. “For some reason...