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...palatial condo you bargained for could turn out to be a weed-bound motel. Because that actually happened to William Rogers, he created a Timeshare Users Group website www.tug2.net) which now has more than 3,000 members who rate their shares via chat room and bulletin board. And even if you find the share of your dreams, "the trading is not all that easy, because you can't get the places during the times you want," cautions Joan Bennett of Indianapolis, Ind., who with her husband Dick owns a 13-week share in Hilton Head. "To be sure of getting...
...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 $50,000 for eggs from a young woman with specific physical and intellectual attributes...
First, the good news. The National Center for Health Statistics concluded, in a survey released last week, that girls ages 15 to 17 had the lowest birth rate in 40 years. Finally, messages about abstinence and contraception seem to have caught on: 80% of the decline in teen pregnancy is attributed to more birth control. So let's take a minute, parents and teens, to pat ourselves on the back. Done? Good. Now let's get back to work, because here's the rest of the story...
...stand Spam. The unsolicited junk e-mail that pours into my In box at the rate of a couple of hundred a day doesn't bother me much. You can pretty much blank it out by not opening those enticing messages with titles like "chance of a lifetime!" or "hot naked co-eds!" What I can't stand is chain mail and hoaxes, because they tend to come from friends. And it's tough telling friends they've been had, especially in front of all the other folks who were copied on the message...
...inject Methuselah genes into fertilized eggs and fool our mortal bodies into believing that we are forever young. "Perhaps," Benzer muses, "aging can be better described not as a clock but as a scenario, which we can hope to edit." If we died in old age at the same rate we die between ages 10 and 15, then most of us in the U.S. would live 1,200 years. We would outdo the first Methuselah, whose years were...