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...nearly 22.5 million. Each visit might represent a deposit, an electronic payment or just a peek at an account balance. In Continental Europe, online banking is dominated by traditional banks. But in the U.K., even though "High Street" banks have more online customers overall, four pure-play Net banks - Egg, Smile, Intelligent Finance and Cahoot - have made impressive inroads. Egg has 2.1 million customers, for instance, compared to about 3 million for Barclays' online service, the biggest among Britain's bricks-and-mortar banks. And together, the pure plays have nearly 30% of the U.K.'s total number of unique...
...used in the 16th century. These massive limestone blocks, engineers say, are unique to the region in their combination of porousness and durability. One thing that won't be reproduced is the mortar used to hold the stones together, which was said to be mixed from goat hair and egg shells. Mending the ethnic wounds is going to prove harder. The Stari Most was destroyed by a Croat shell not because of its strategic significance but because of what it stood for - the ethnic cohabitation of Muslim, Croat and Serb. The Croat commander whose unit deliberately brought the bridge down...
...studies offer a new definition of brain food. Chicago researchers say a diet rich in vitamin E, found in grains, nuts and egg yolks, can reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease. A Dutch study seconds that notion and adds vitamin C, found in many fruits and vegetables, to the list of neuroprotective nutrients. In neither study, however, did taking vitamin supplements provide the same benefit as eating real food. Researchers caution that the results are not yet conclusive and that vitamins--whether in diet or supplements--may not be enough to overcome a genetic predisposition to the disease...
Both teams use similar approaches to egg freezing. After retrieving as many as 20 eggs from a woman by stimulating the ovaries with fertility drugs, researchers dip the eggs in a cryoprotectant (a kind of antifreeze) and then a sugar solution, which pulls water out of the cells by osmosis. Then the cell is stored in liquid nitrogen at -320[degrees]F until it is ready to be used...
...more than 30,000 children in the U.S. conceived in vitro each year, a controversial study recently suggested that those babies have a higher risk of genetic damage. "We need to have 700 or 800 babies to prove statistically that there is no increase in birth defects [for frozen-egg babies]," says Dr. Michael Opsahl of the Genetics and IVF Institute in Fairfax, Va. Kim doesn't buy that argument: "The bottom line is, Can you produce a baby? We say yes." He adds that the chromosomal tests done on his babies have so far come out normal...