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...Rogen's Ben Stone, he lives with a bunch of dopers so louche they make him seem almost normal. Yes, Ben's friends are descendants of Cheech & Chong and Bill & Ted; but they go back even further, to the all-male enclave inhabited by Gary Cooper and his professorial pals in the 1941 Ball of Fire. Both groups were involved in compiling a reference work: an encyclopedia from the Ball of Fire scholars and, from Ben's housemates, a scheme for a website that will itemize the nude scenes of movie actresses. This is an idea so perfect...
...clinicians discard immediately. Anywhere from 3% to 10% of IVF embryos get either too many or too few chromosomes when they are fertilized; these embryos have no chance of survival and would never be transplanted into a IVF patient. Other than their abnormal chromosome count, however, they are perfectly normal, and Eggan has proven that with mouse cells-"we removed the abnormal set of chromosomes in a one-celled embryo, replaced it with a normal set of chromosomes from a donor cell, and showed that those reconstructed embryos can be used to generate embryonic stem cell lines," he says...
...caffeine and alcohol consumption are similarly chemically-induced (albeit state-sanctioned). Parents who would be horrified at the thought of legalizing speed happily give Adderall, an amphetamine, to children. The only difference is that prescribed drugs “fix” a problem, supposedly making you more normal (happier if you are depressed, calmer if you are agitated, etc.), whereas illegal drugs—which can have the same physiological effects—make you “high,” or abnormal...
...chances of that happening are higher than normal. The National Hurricane Center has forecast a busy Atlantic tropical storm season, with 13 to 17 named storms. Three to five of those could reach Category 3 - Katrina was a Category 3 storm when it struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005 - or higher, and under the city's new policy a storm that size headed for New Orleans would trigger a mandatory evacuation order...
...That’s probably the most nervous I’ve ever been in a match because it was my last chance, the last time I ever could win it, so I had more pressure than normal,” Grigg said...