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...seminal vesicle, where it is mixed with other components of the semen (see diagram). Once he has found it, he makes a small incision, draws out the vas and severs it, often removing a small section and tying the ends back on each other so that they cannot rejoin. He then repeats the procedure on the other side. The operation, which costs up to $150 and rarely takes more than half an hour, has no physical effect on a man's sex drive or capacity to achieve erection or ejaculation; it simply keeps the sperm out of the seminal...
...ships are finally linked up, the astronauts and cosmonauts will begin their joint activities, including an exchange of crewmen (although one man will always remain behind in his home ship). Before they pull away from each other about two days later, the two ships will make several attempts to rejoin briefly, rehearsing a procedure that may one day be used to rescue the crew members of a distressed space vehicle by transferring them to a ship of another nation. In fact, developing rescue capability is a primary concern of both countries...
...movement of the '20s. In 1935 he joined the Communist Party and within five years was managing editor of the Daily Worker. He became disillusioned, he said, when he "learned the truth concerning the Communist conspiracy against America and Catholicism," and in 1945 he renounced the party to rejoin the Catholic Church. Later he was frequently called as a witness in trials of accused Communists, and he appeared often before Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigating committee...
...problem now is to see if we can pull together as a team with what we have." He did not know if or when the blacks would rejoin the squad but said he was "assuming that we would make plans without them, and without any others whose moral conscience prevented them from participating...
Late in his career Powell made some effort to rejoin the vanguard of American black leadership, but he was rejected by the emerging Black Power movement. His playboy opulence scarcely fit the hard-eyed, denim-jacketed style of the younger militants. His once-envied achievement of making it in Whitey's world on Whitey's terms seemed increasingly frivolous to separatists eager to develop an independent set of black values. His demagogy remained effective only as long as the situation of blacks remained static. When vicarious achievement was no longer enough for blacks, Adam Clayton Powell became irrelevant...