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...more lesbian couples and single women--the nation's 100-odd sperm banks have changed the way they do business. Many of these women want as much information as possible about their children's provenance, so they can pass it on to them later. "It's become very consumer driven and competitive in the past 10 years particularly, as women have rightfully taken over the position of selecting their donors," says Dr. Charles Sims, medical director of California Cryobank, the largest sperm bank in the country. "In the past, the primary concern was safety. [But now] it's not just...
...Delta Force tracked likely bin Laden hideouts, equipped with night-vision goggles and stun grenades, in case they had to creep inside the mountains, and laser pointers, in the hope that they could get warplanes to do the dirty, risky work. Bands of local Afghan fighters--whether driven by the desire to rid their country of bin Laden or win the $25 million bounty the U.S. had placed on his head--joined U.S. special-operations forces in the pursuit. Their orders were to shoot to kill. As one Army officer told Time, "We won't ask him if he wants...
Erlich is hilarious throughout. He’ll say anything to get the girl and introduces himself to the audience in a frenetic, hormone-driven shpiel filled with name-dropping and absurd anecdotes. Without surrendering the humor of the role, Erlich manages to hint at the many levels of a seemingly shallow womanizer...
...House was hand-picked for its funk paradise-like features. My goal was to live with people in the band so we could play whenever we felt like it, says Scammon, who works for a computer company. Getting this particular house was very much a band-driven choice...
...various factions of the Northern Alliance have recaptured their traditional northern and western hometowns, and they've reportedly already divided Kabul into separate zones for each of its component ethnic militia that march separately but fight together. In the south, the Taliban appear to have been driven out of their last urban strongholds in Kandahar and Jalalabad, headed, no doubt, for the hills where they'll hope to reprise the mujahedeen guerrilla tradition. But reports suggest much of the post-Taliban south is now being carved up among various local Pashtun commanders. Fighters loyal to Arif Khan, a local tribal...