Word: busters
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There are also tricky questions posed by the financing of the new technology. Dr. John Buster of the UCLA School of Medicine has been working since 1979 to develop a technique of embryo transplants for women who are unable to conceive but able to carry a child to term. The husband's sperm is used to impregnate a woman artificially; the embryo is then flushed out and implanted in the man's wife. The first two babies to be produced by this method were born this year...
...called the National Institutes of Health in 1980, and we were told that no money was available for this work," says Buster. "The people who make these decisions are politicians, and they have to make those decisions to remain in office. After all, infertility never killed anyone." So Buster made an alliance with Randolph Seed, a surgeon, and his brother Richard, a scientist who had experimented in cattle breeding. The Seed brothers' Chicago firm, Fertility and Genetics Research Inc., invested $500,000 in Buster's UCLA project, and they have applied for a patent on the process. Despite...
...Chevy Malibu A policeman sets off after him on a motorcycle, pulls him to the side of the road, and inquires what is in the trunk, which seems to contain something hot--literally. I wouldn't look in there, Parnell intimates, thereby piquing the cop's curiosity Bad move, buster. As Parnell watches out of the rear-view mirror, the cop opens the trunk, which emanates weird x-ray emissions and zaps the poor guy to smithereens. J. Frank drives off into the California sunset...
...think your readers might want to know that the educational software product listed in your Best Sellers chart is called Math Blaster!, not, as you had it Math Buster...
...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 was recovered and implanted...