Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the 25-year-old woman saw her healthy newborn son, she wept tears of joy and relief. A typical reaction, one might say. But the circumstances were extraordinary. Five years ago the mother had been diagnosed as prematurely menopausal: her ovaries had ceased to release eggs or to produce the hormones needed to sustain a pregnancy. The child she had carried for nine months was the genetic offspring of another woman, who had donated an unfertilized egg. The birth of the world's first "donor-egg baby" in November, which was announced last week by scientists in Australia...
...British journal Nature by a team of researchers led by Dr. Carl Wood at Melbourne's Monash University, owes much to the experience of cattle and sheep breeders. They have long transferred embryos from prize animals to poorer stock in efforts to upgrade their herds. The human egg in the Australian experiment came from a 29-year-old woman who was trying to conceive. Although her ovaries were healthy, the fallopian tubes connecting the ovaries with the uterus were blocked...
Doctors were trying to help her become pregnant by using a fertilization method introduced in 1978. The so-called test-tube-baby technique bypasses the sealed passages by mating the wife's egg with the husband's sperm in a glass Petri dish. The resulting embryo is implanted in the woman's womb...
...greatest thief of childhood is conformity, an insight that informs The Most Wonderful Egg in the World by Helme Heine (Atheneum; $11.95). Three hens are driven by that ageless query: Which is the most beautiful? The king makes a Solomonic decision: whoever produces the most wonderful egg will be made a princess. One hen immediately lays a perfectly shaped egg; another creates an egg so large that it would make an ostrich jealous; the third gets up from her nest to reveal an egg in shape and shades not unlike Rubik's Cube. In the end, the king awards...
Nevertheless, the Great Communicator did not stint on personal details. His diet is light and lean (except for tacos at lunch on Thursday) if not quite salt-free: "I mean, you'd have to be a raccoon or something to eat a hard-boiled egg without salt, but I use very little." He no longer body surfs, but still performs backflips into the pool "to show off for Nancy." By working out with weights and treadmill for 25 minutes every evening in his White House exercise room, he has gained 5 Ibs. ("muscle is heavier than fat") and added...