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Among the first to benefit from the new techniques were Jim and Sarah Redington, of Hot Springs, Virginia. By 1994, after eight years of waiting, they had nearly given up hope of having a second child. Jim, a family physician, was treated for testicular cancer in 1985 while Sarah was pregnant with their daughter Rebecca. He could no longer produce sperm, and the samples he had stored at a sperm bank before his cancer treatment had failed to make Sarah pregnant again. Not even the in vitro process resulted in conception. "The doctor said it didn't work and never...
...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...
Finally, in 1994, the year Sarah turned 38, a new procedure became available at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk. She and Jim were among the first patients to try it there, using a sample of Jim's sperm that had been frozen since 1985. And in August 1995, the couple got back the future that Jim's illness had nearly taken from them: Sarah gave birth to their blond, gray-green-eyed son West...
...JIM DAVIS Democrat--Florida 11th Emerging from a financially grueling primary, Davis came from behind, bolstered by sluggers like House minority leader Dick Gephardt...
DAVE JACKSON has interviewed his share of computer industry titans in his five years as TIME's San Francisco bureau chief, but they don't get much more, well, titanic than Microsoft's Bill Gates and Netscape's Jim Barksdale. To report this week's cover story on their David-and- Goliath struggle to control the Internet, Jackson journeyed to the companies' respective headquarters in Redmond, Washington, and Mountain View, California, for first-hand views of the enemy camps. "Digital technology has always been a battleground of innovation and competition," says Jackson, "but rarely does it break into the open...