Word: eggs
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...embryo in search of the "perfect" child. And while it promises to reduce the number of abortions later in pregnancy, it is already drawing fire from those who oppose the taking of any human life, no matter how small. "Once you've joined the male sperm with the female egg, it's a human being," says Robert Powell, vice president of the National Right to Life Committee. "You're killing the very youngest of human beings, and that decision is based on disability...
TELEVISION The inventors of Big Bird lay an egg...
Where does the solar system end? At Pluto, most folks would reply. Or at Neptune, the cognoscenti might say, because thanks to Pluto's odd, egg-shaped orbit, the eighth planet has been outermost since 1979 and will be through 1998. But astronomers suspect that the sun's family actually extends far beyond either of these two planets. Out there in the frigid darkness beyond any known planet, they believe, lies the Kuiper belt, a ring of dusty ice chunks that surrounds the solar system. Beyond that, astronomers say, is the similarly composed Oort cloud, which forms a vast sphere...
...does a woman's ability to conceive drop after 40? Worn-out eggs, suggests a new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. For women over 40 receiving egg implants, pregnancy rates were lower when the eggs were their own than when the eggs were donated by someone younger. But women with donated eggs had about the same fertility whether they were older than...
...billion in foreign reserves, plus the world's second largest copper-mining industry. It also had emeralds, other gemstones and immense fertile areas. It had the potential to become southern Africa's breadbasket, and President Kenneth Kaunda promised every Zambian a pint of milk and an egg...