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While Harris' project may seem shallow, the idea of choosing an egg donor based on physical characteristics is hardly new. Several egg businesses already let clients select donors by race, weight, height, eye color or hair color, not to mention such preferences as "fine boned" and "tanning ability." Harris isn't the first to charge for eggs either: virtually all egg donors are in fact sellers, at a typical rate of between $3,000 and $5,000 per ovum, plus medical expenses. And an unnamed egg-seeking couple put an ad in several college papers last winter offering...
...Harris says he's getting calls from more young women who want to be donors, including students from Harvard and Berkeley and "a Bo Derek look-alike." One of his charter donors, actress Nicole Newman, 25, says she's sticking with the project in the hopes of making money for college--and to be right where the action is. "It's the new millennium," she says. "We're the first people at the door...
...bunny, then they are...equal." It's hard to tell whether her 25 pint-size students are still with her. They have been busy all morning working on language skills, word recognition, counting, sets, days of the week and primary colors, in addition to trying to complete an art project and work on assorted social skills, such as raising one's hand before speaking--and all in 2 1/2 hrs. Debbie Wampler, beloved kindergarten teacher for 20 years at Wyngate Elementary School in Bethesda, Md., says she regrets that her class seems so hurried, "but there just isn't enough...
OCCUPATION Computer consultant, founder of Project Gutenberg...
...Saradjeff's early departure was something of a tragedy for the bell project. He left only partial plans for the bell's hanging, and he was the only man around with any comprehensive knowledge of their playing. The bells are tuned to an eastern scale, supposedly a mixture of Byzantine and Tartar influences, which, to the Western ear gives their carillons a haunting and unfamiliar sound. No one here is quite sure how to play them or what music they were cast for. Aara admits that it is only through a lengthy apprenticeship that one begins to recognize the bells...