Such a move would certainly do little to improve IVF's success rate, but Dr Lieberman says that for many in his field "success is measured only by the birth of a healthy, non-handicapped baby".
For positive events, such as marriage or childbirth, the effect was equally transient - the researchers calculated that the happiness increase delivered by the birth of a child lasted for two years before the volunteers ratings were back to normal.
For another, the number of people retiring from 1990 through the rest of the century will be held down by the low birth rates of the Depression and World War II years.
And yet it was possible until 1999, when Tony Blair started to reform it, to watch the Lords in action and admire it for working better than any chamber of nearly 1, 300 members, more than 750 of them members by right of birth, really deserved to.
But what I detect at work here is not the store clerks, who are merely executing the will of their paymasters, nor even the company bosses, who in any event are fairly hapless themselves, having gotten where they are mostly by luck of birth and a few fortuitous school choices.
Yates had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, and her lawyers argued that severe psychosis brought on by postpartum depression following the birth of her youngest child, Mary, led her to commit the killings.
Joining LaBute's work are "The Price" by Lena Kitsopoulou from Greece, "The Breakout" by Anders Lustgarten from Britain, "The Birth of My Violence" by Marco Canale from Spain and "Spine" by Clara Brennan from Britain.
Meanwhile, the working population will have been thinned by the low birth rates of the past 15 years.
We came together because of a shared belief that in America, your success should not be determined by the circumstances of your birth.
But in 2007 he returned to his country of birth, greeted at the airport by thousands of well wishers throwing flowers in his path.
When as much as 80% of global inequality is explained by birth and background, education should be the counterweight, the driver of equal opportunity.
The band of Manchurian guerrillas who had attended the state's birth appeared bound by almost chivalric oaths of fealty, trust and reciprocal obligation.
That long-ago safety scare, prompted by hundreds of lawsuits claiming birth defects, proved to be a false alarm.
An Iranian by birth, Sistani is one of five Grand Ayatollahs in Iraq, only two of whom are Iraqi.
By sheer dint of her birth, she inherited the type of capital that makes it possible to exponentially increase wealth.
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And like so many of the men and women who sang them, the blues refused to be limited by the circumstances of their birth.
It is also necessary to be Mexican by birth to discharge the position of captain of the port and all services of practique and airport commandant, as well as all functions of customs agent in the Republic.
From the moment the animals arrive majestically onstage, called from the wings and down the aisles to Pride Rock for the birth of Simba by a mesmerizing Zulu chant and response led by Rafiki, the baboon-shaman, the story is liberated from its soppy, hidebound cartoon naturalism.
The Proms will celebrate the 200th year of Wagner's birth with performances of his Ring cycle by Staatskapelle Berlin, conducted by Isreali-Argentine Daniel Barenboim.
The centenary celebrations of Camus's birth have been disrupted by disagreements traceable to the old vexed question of Algeria.
In our family of two parents and nine children (ages 13 to 29, four by birth and five by adoption), 100% of the citizens age 57 and up are non-Hispanic whites.
He was accused of murdering by neglect one of newborn twin boys his daughter gave birth to in 1996, having failed to arrange medical care for the ailing infant.
Women often needed to relieve the pain and frustration of giving birth by screaming and shouting - something that their partner might misinterpret.
Red heels were so important to the Sun King that he passed an edict saying that only members of the nobility by birth could wear them.
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The Breguet Foundation recently commemorated the 250th anniversary of his birth by awarding a prize to Carole Forestier, a Frenchwoman, who designed a wristwatch with a movement entirely encircled by the mainspring.
As it happens, progress in improving health for the total population as measured by expected length of life at birth proceeded at not far from the same rate before World War II and after World War II.
The good weirdness of the natural birth movement is inevitably overshadowed by the vaccine debate, a debate which weaves together strands of American individualism and radicalism with the inevitability of distrust in a system as diverse and disparate as our own.
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At the moment the site contains about 50% of the materials that will be provided by 2009, the bicentenary of the naturalist's birth.
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The ambitions of some Americans are limited by failing schools and hidden prejudice and the circumstances of their birth.
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