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FROM THE HATCHERY You may never have heard of a nude mouse, but infertile women may come to love them. Canadian doctors have taken tiny bits of a young woman's frozen ovarian tissue and transplanted them to the back muscles of a fur-free, or "nude," mouse (the lab species of choice because it has no graft-rejecting immune system). The eggs were incubated under the critter's skin and eventually harvested. A tiny first step, but an important one: the technique may one day allow women with ovarian cancer, for example, to have children of their...
...always wanted to be a sidekick. I need an alpha male to accompany my Scottie Pippen cockiness, my Barney Rubble joie de vivre and my Siegfried love of feeling the soft, warm fur of a white tiger against my naked body. Plus I'd had experience interviewing celebrities. And in person they won't be able to hang...
Make a Memory, a 2,600-sq.-ft. store in Alpharetta, Ga., carries 93 kinds of scissors, 2,700 sticker designs (teddy bears and Barbies are popular) and 3,000 types of paper (some featuring holograms and fake fur). The store's clientele is 99% female. "We spend hundreds of dollars on cameras and film. We take the snapshots, rush to the one-hour photo place, get the photos and look through them," owner Tom Sanders, 37, says of those who haven't yet discovered scrapbooking. "Then what do we do? We put them in shoe boxes and never look...
...Gooch reports Gorey and O'Hara established for themselves distinct reputations on campus. Gorey romped around in long fur coats and basketball sneakers; when he wore sandals, his toenails were sometimes painted green...
...dates with young men who walked up to the Quad to pick us up and bring us back. We went to football games, parties, and dances in the Houses. We wore date dresses, high heels and fur coats. We necked in the vestibule. We fell in love and out of love, and an astonishing number did what just our mothers expected--we married Harvard...