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There are other intriguing questions about Koecher's behavior. He and Hana, who are childless, were planning a new life in Austria before Karl confessed. "We saw them at a farewell dinner in our home," says one friend. "There was no indication they were apprehensive." The day before the Koechers' arrest, they sold their cooperative apartment for more than a quarter of a million dollars. Did they believe the FBI would simply let them take the money and run? The Koechers, says their lawyer, were "doublecrossed" by the FBI. He would not elaborate...
...American couples is designated as infertile, the scientific term for those who have tried to conceive for a year or more without success. More than a million of these desperate couples seek the help of doctors and clinics every year. Women no longer carry the sole blame for childless marriages. Research has found that male deficiencies are the cause 40% of the time, and problems with both members of the marriage account for 20% of reported cases of infertility...
Other attitudes are also at fault: by postponing childbirth until their mid-or even late 30s, women risk a barren future. A Yale University study of 40 childless women found that after 35 years of age, the time it takes to conceive lengthens from an average of six months to more than two years...
...technology, but they gave up in despair. In Germany, where there are no laws either permitting or forbidding surrogate motherhood, a man in Bad Oeynhausen was fined $1,750 for advertising for a woman willing to gestate an embryo and then give the child up for adoption to a childless couple. Before he could find such a woman, he was fined because the law forbids any ads in connection with adoptions...
...couple met in 1920 when he was struggling to start his new venture, and she began married life stuffing solicitation envelopes in a Greenwich Village basement. As the Digest quickly prospered, she kept her editorial influence largely indirect. But it was she who took the lead in the childless Wallaces' vast (more than $60 million over 30 years) charitable efforts. Personally overseeing many of the projects that she funded, Wallace had a special interest in gifts that continued her two passions: art and gardening. The millions she donated to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art created...