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...does the rate of birth defects. A woman is twice as likely to give birth to a defective child at age 40 as she was at 25 and five times as likely after 45. One possible explanation is aging eggs. A human female is born with about 2 million immature eggs, or oöcytes. Between puberty and menopause about 400 of them will mature into fertile eggs, a process that involves halving the number of chromosomes during cell division. According to theory, the older the oöcyte when it undergoes division-and in a 40-year...
These goals only touched the iceberg because when you're good you get lucky: Yale goalie Betsy Mason fumbled the puck in the crease, giving Firkins Reed a freebie at 3:36. After Yale broke their goose-egg with a power-play goal by Betsy Bradley at 5:32, the Crimson retaliated late in the period on a goal by Palmer. Right wing White finished off the scoring with her second of the game, intercepting at 14:55 of the third period...
...objects not on display will be moved to a $28 million warehouse and conservation laboratory being built in Suitland, Md., six miles from the Smithsonian's main museums on the Mall near the Capitol. A new computer system will be capable of locating anything from hummingbird eggs to George Washington's egg poacher within an hour; now it takes days to find items, if they can be found...
...dynamic, charismatic Sadat: efficient, disciplined, self-effacing. He has not changed. Since taking office, Mubarak, 53, has made only four public appearances. His speeches are short and to the point, and he has no interest in ceremony. As he complains to aides: "When every chicken lays an egg, must I be present for the photographer...
...despite the fact that Freeman has our values and knows the same literary buzz words we do, she succeeds in re-creating an era on its own terms--an era for which Freud had no answers, when a young lady's unchaperoned absence raised eyebrows, and when Easter egg hunts were actually...