Word: donors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alumni have had buildings named after them for less. Sure, you thought the Cabots, the Lamonts, and the Widene rs were nice to Harvard, but no donor could be more generous than the Dartmouth men's hockey team was last night...
...Most donor nations supported a $12 billion compromise budget, but it fell through because the Reagan Administration trimmed the annual U.S. contribution from nearly $1 billion to $750 million. The other members were then left with a hard choice: increase their own donations to get the total up to $12 billion, which would have dropped the U.S. share below 25%, violating an informal agreement reached last year, or lower the budget total to keep the American donation at 25%. In the end, the nations decided it was more important, as a matter of precedent, to keep the U.S. shouldering...
...donor's egg was fertilized in a Petri dish using sperm obtained from the recipient's husband. Thirty hours later, when the egg had cleaved into two cells, it was inserted into the uterus of the menopausal woman. Her body adjusted so naturally to the pregnancy that she has even been able to breast-feed her son. One sad note amid all the celebration: the woman who donated the egg failed to become pregnant. She still does not know that in one sense, at least, she has become a mother...
...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 in the infertile woman's uterus...
Scientists see immense possibilities for the donor-egg techniques. Says Australia's Dr. Wood: "It is now theoretically possible to override menopause, thus extending the childbearing years of women who marry late in life, remarry or defer having children until middle...