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SPECIAL DELIVERY Love is war for the male paper nautilus, whose idea of sex is to heave his manhood--and his genes--like a tiny torpedo into the female. Once implanted, the male organ serves as a built-in sperm bank. Similarly, the male anglerfish burrows into the belly of its much bigger mate and becomes a permanent, parasitic testicle. The female green spoon worm inhales the tiny male, who then resides in the androecium ("little man house"), a nook in the reproductive tract from which he fertilizes eggs...
...what's to fret about if you're only edging 60? Well, there are a few impediments. For all the cheerleading of sex-advice books and the fervor of magazines like Modern Maturity, the AARP's house organ (GREAT SEX: WHAT'S AGE GOT TO DO WITH IT? blared a cover a few years ago that featured a voluptuous Susan Sarandon), age does bring sexual changes for both genders. My father, who flirted outrageously even after he turned 90, liked to tell the story of the old guy who wants his doctor to "lower" his sex urge. At your...
Writing on the monks’ journey, Pravda—the former organ of the banned Communist Party of the Soviet Union, now the organ of, um, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation—wrote that negotiations would happen in “Harvard State University, Boston, US.” Hey—if the monks want to spice up their social lives a little, harvard-parties.com-style, far be it from me to stand in their way. But please, I wondered, could they stop yammering about those silly bells...
Even if these obstacles are surmounted, there remains the problem of finding donors. "Because we have only 6,000 [dead] organ donors a year, there's no way we can fulfill the need for the millions that could benefit," says Ricordi. "And even if we could figure out a way to harvest cells from live donors, that's likely to only increase the number of transplants from a few thousand to tens of thousands...
...four of his limbs at once,” marveled Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies, who is also a musician and composer. “What we do is like playing with one hand on the piano—and he’s playing an organ...