Word: eggs
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...Manchester, New Hampshire, you can still find a Post Office Fruit Luncheonette with three men nursing coffees and egg salad sandwiches and a sign that says "Do Not Touch Magazines Unless Going to Buy" and the rack of aspirin bottles that have been sitting there collecting dust since the Reagan administration. On this Saturday, the tabloid in the window runs the cover story "Bill Clinton's Four-in-a-Bed Orgies with Black Hookers" and "'He's The Father of My Child,' Claims Ghetto Gal He Had Sex With Thirteen Times." It is primary season in New Hampshire with three...
...copied in the cell, much as the same bar of music repeats on a scratched record. The DNA repeat gets worse with each generation, just as with each playing of a flawed record, the music stutters for a longer period. "Presumably the replication error occurs in the sperm or egg before conception," says molecular geneticist Pieter de Jong, who headed the Livermore team...
...instance, he cites global warming as the reason why an egg can be fried on some streets in the Southwest. Gore actually starts the book by telling the foreboding story of the Aral Sea, now no longer a sea but a desert--thanks to the abuses of humans (there are even pictures to prove it). Gore continues his list of horror by relating numerous stories about cultures around the world that are self-destructing...
Animal sex, however, is a more recent invention. Biologist Lynn Margulis of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst believes the evolutionary roots of egg and sperm cells can be traced back to a group of organisms known as protists that first appeared some 1.5 billion years ago. (Modern examples include protozoa, giant kelp and malaria parasites.) During periods of starvation, Margulis conjectures, one protist was driven to devour another. Sometimes this cannibalistic meal was incompletely digested, and the nuclei of prey and predator fused. By joining forces, the fused cells were better able to survive adversity, and because they survived...
...influence of sex extends far beyond the realm of physical traits. For instance, the inescapable fact that women have eggs and men sperm has spurred the development of separate and often conflicting reproductive strategies. University of Michigan psychologist David Buss has found that men and women react very differently to questions about infidelity. Men tend to be far more upset by a lover's sexual infidelity than do women: just imagining their partner in bed with another man sends their heart rate soaring by almost five beats a minute. Says Buss: "That's the equivalent of drinking three cups...