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...volume centers instead on the Society for Germinal Choice, nicknamed the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank by reporters, which eccentric millionaire Robert Graham founded in 1980 and bankrolled thanks to his patent on shatterproof eyeglasses...
...considered it his way of fighting against the degradation of American society: he would collect the sperm of Nobel Prize winners, America’s best and brightest, and match them with intelligent women who need sperm. But the Nobel sperm was few and far between, forcing Graham to become less and less choosy about his donors and to give his clients choice in sperm...
...Crimson talked to Plotz about whether any of these kids were geniuses and why; whether or not Harvard students should donate sperm; his conclusions about Graham, the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank founder; and whether his subjects liked his book...
...fourth attraction, which is certainly related to the others, is that you are seduced into this. You’re wanted and you get the perception that you’re special. Particularly in the case of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank, but the same is true at any sperm bank. You’re healthy enough, you’re smart enough, you have a high sperm count. Part of the lesson I got from—when I was able to qualify and was actually considering it, even though I had completely dismissed it before the examination?...
DIED. CLAUDE SIMON, 91, leading figure in France's "nouveau roman," or new novel, literary movement; author of such acclaimed, stylistically challenging novels as La Route Des Flandres (The Flanders Road) in 1960; and winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize for literature; in Paris...