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...There are currently no guidelines for filling the current, vacancy and it is incumbent upon the Board [of Election Commissioners] to come [up] with the fairest method possible," Dennis Newman, McSweeney's attorney, wrote Wednesday in a letter to the board...
...University Library has sure done a great job getting us into all of these powerful research tools--now if they could just develop a simple method...
Trounson's method, called immature oocyte collection, is radically different from traditional IVF. Instead of priming the woman with fertility drugs so that eggs (the oocytes) will mature, doctors simply remove immature eggs. The timing is no longer crucial. Success hinges on two new techniques: locating the immature eggs and stimulating them to mature outside the ovary...
American fertility experts doubt that Trounson's method will save as much money as he claims. What's more, they question whether the treatment will be useful for the majority of infertile women. "I don't think we have data to prove that this will give the woman a better chance of success," says Dr. Suheil Muasherof the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Virginia. Trounson admits that he cannot predict the procedure's success rate, but in cattle, 30% of the embryos from immature eggs become calves. That's slightly better than the current 25% success rate...
...melanin theory, most notoriously advocated by Leonard Jeffries, has no grounding in accepted fact and can defend itself only by claiming that the effects of melanin "cannot be measured with Eurocentric methods." What might those "Eurocentric methods" be? Science? That's probably one such method we might want to hold...