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...that can lead to Oscar nominations. In the film, she stars as Justine, a small-town Texas woman with a dead-end job behind the makeup counter of a discount store called the Retail Rodeo. Married to a lug (John C. Reilly) who is lacking in both smarts and sperm count, Justine embarks on a disastrous affair with a troubled young co-worker (Jake Gyllenhaal...
Poor Justine Last (Jennifer Aniston). When she gets home from clerking at Retail Rodeo, her life is even more awful. Her husband (John C. Reilly) is a house painter with a disastrous sperm count. Mostly he sits around stoned, watching inane TV. No wonder Justine starts making eyes at Holden (Jake Gyllenhaal), the cute new guy at work. He has borrowed his name from The Catcher in the Rye, but his soulful air masks a dangerous obsessiveness...
With success rates for live births from frozen eggs ranging wildly (anywhere from 1% to 20%, vs. the 30% to 50% rates for in vitro fertilization using both fresh eggs and sperm), it's not hard to see Paulson's point. Even the kindest critics say women would be wiser to wait until more research is done before laying down the cash and taking the powerful fertility drugs needed to retrieve the eggs in the first place. "As a clinician, you so desperately want to help," says Dr. Thomas Toth, a reproductive endocrinologist at Harvard Medical School, "but first...
...decide what to do? If she is a young woman facing imminent infertility from cancer treatments or other medical problems, then you could argue that even unknown odds are better than none. Otherwise, it's important to understand that many other options exist--from embryo freezing to sperm donation--with much better track records...
WHALE OF A TIME Oman is the only Arab member of the International Whaling Commission, dedicated to the conservation of whales. The waters off the coast of Oman are home to more than 20 species of marine mammals and provide both breeding and feeding grounds for sperm whales, dolphins and the endangered humpback whales. Head to the bluffs above Muscat to spot dolphins frolicking, or book a whale-watching cruise at Marina Bander al-Rowdha by calling...