Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Australian-born director who had staged Frayn's 1980 comedy Make and Break as well as several notable productions at Britain's National Theater. Blakemore came up with such good suggestions for staging that Frayn rewrote most of the play. It worked. Noises Off opened sensationally in London two years ago and has been playing to packed houses ever since...
...Nature by a team of researchers led by Dr. Carl Wood at Melbourne's Monash University, owes much to the experience of cattle and sheep breeders. They have long transferred embryos from prize animals to poorer stock in efforts to upgrade their herds. The human egg in the Australian experiment came from a 29-year-old woman who was trying to conceive. Although her ovaries were healthy, the fallopian tubes connecting the ovaries with the uterus were blocked...
...Australian team retrieved four eggs from the second woman's ovaries for the test-tube fertilization; with her permission, they collected one more to be used in an impregnation attempt in another infertile woman. The prematurely menopausal woman was an ideal recipient. For 2½ months she had been primed for a possible pregnancy with daily doses of the hormones estrogen and progesterone. She matched the donor in eye and hair color, body build, social class and education level...
...Australian experiment is expected to be followed by a birth in California this month that involves another kind of egg transfer between two women. The difference is that the California baby was conceived not in a Petri dish but in the body of the woman donating the egg. In the method used by Dr. John Buster and his team at Harbor/U.C.L.A. Medical Center in Torrance, a woman with healthy ovaries was artificially inseminated with sperm from the husband of an infertile woman. Five days after fertilization, the donor's uterus was flushed with a nutrient solution and the embryo...
...Suzuki, and expects to import 300,000 of their cars. Its agreement with Toyota to produce 250,000 cars annually in Fremont, Calif., was approved last month by the Federal Trade Commission. And GM has also quietly arranged for Nissan, Toyota's archrival, to build cars for its Australian subsidiary...