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...PROCESS OF HUMAN CONCEPTION is almost absurdly inefficient. During copulation, a man expels tens of millions of sperm, with considerable force, into his partner's vaginal canal. Despite the head start, most of the tiny, tadpole-shape, self-propelled cells never come within shouting distance of the woman's egg, floating deep inside the Fallopian tube. And if one does finally complete the journey, it may or may not have the energy left for fertilization...
Nevertheless, after the UNH victory, Smith is hoping to make Harvard's first Beanpot game as pleasant as a root canal...
...House for reconciliation. The Senate approved the legislation, the first to outlaw an abortion technique since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision made abortion legal, on a 54-44 vote. Opponents say the procedure involves killing a fetus before it is pulled from the birth canal. Doctors describe it, however, as the least risky technique for a mother who has a compelling medical reason to terminate a late-term pregnancy. "The important thing that gets distorted in this debate is that these are extremely rare procedures," says TIME's Wendy Cole. "They are performed at only three...
...dozen creeds." Now it is a dull port of Arabic-speaking Arabs bound by one creed, Islam. Theroux finds the same dreary uniformity in other cities: "It was hard to imagine a black general named Othello living in Venice now," despite all the Senegalese selling trinkets near the Grand Canal...
...from O.J. output make up for the drag on the GNP from millions of people glued to their TV sets and staying away from the stores? According to my statistical reckoning, Americans put in more man-hours watching the Bronco chase than it took to build the entire Panama Canal...