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Their specialist did hold out one faint hope. In the future, he said, for men with few or sluggish sperm that could not penetrate egg cells on their own, scientists might be able to help fertilization take place by injecting a single sperm cell into an egg. At the time, that sounded futuristic even to a medical man like Jim. But he and Sarah took their doctor's advice, stopped trying to conceive through in vitro and kept Jim's last remaining samples frozen at the sperm bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW TO COAX NEW LIFE | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...animal-rights protest to this activity was almost too faint for anyone but a marketing manager to hear, but faintly is how these issues begin. It may be only a matter of time before everyone will have to take a stand on deceased animals. Is it respectful, for instance, for Roy Rogers to display his horse Trigger stuffed in a noble pose but disrespectful for Torrington to display a stuffed gopher robbing a bank? (Burrowing, after all, is not a felony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STUFFING OF DREAMS | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

MADISON, Wisconsin: Scientists have found ordinary vinegar in a stellar cloud 25,000 light years from earth, a discovery that may help explain the formation of life. Radio astronomers from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, found faint traces of vinegar, or acetic acid, in a cloud of gas and dust named Sagittarius B2 North. Ammonia was discovered in interstellar space more than 25 years ago, which makes it plausible, according to one of the scientists on the Illinois team, that molecules of ammonia and acetic acid linked up to form basic amino acid. Amino acids, which are the basic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomers Find Vinegar In Distant Space Cloud | 6/11/1996 | See Source »

...Someone tried to wipe it off," he said. "It was quite faint...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Racist Graffiti Scrawled on Wall In Thayer Hall | 5/17/1996 | See Source »

Wendorf described the novel as a "common notebook" that could have been found anywhere in the 1840s. He added that it was in "remarkably good condtion" although hard to read because it is somewhat faint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houghton Librarian Clarifies Alcott Book Status | 5/2/1996 | See Source »

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