1.   A purloined frozen egg and that big needle are supposed to allay further questions about how the medical miracle works.

2.   The former Notre Dame and Iowa assistant has done his own miracle work, getting the Badgers to the Rose Bowl twice in five years.

3.   The United States needs to prove that its economic miracle is working.

4.   Unfortunately, that is how miracles work.

5.   Their bad luck is that this optical miracle works only one way.