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...contributed a hat trick apiece. Harvard never looked back.Leading 6-3 at the half, the Crimson saw a shot each served up by junior Roxanne Pinto, freshman Shannon Purcell, junior Kristina Berquist, and sophomore Patricia Smith, throughout the second half. Harvard mounted a relentless barrage against GW goalie Charlotte Schou, while receiving two saves from Perlman, Harvard boasted a 10-point advantage as the final whistle blew. PRINCETON 10, HARVARD 8Harvard’s win over GW was a testament to the team’s mental and physical strength after suffering a close defeat the night before against league...
...Sweden, laws allow children conceived through sperm donation to seek the identity of their parents when the children reach age 18. Denmark, however, has more sweeping protection of donor anonymity: Cryos does not maintain a record of its donors' names, using a coded identification number instead. According to Schou, the Swedish law has resulted in such a severe donor shortage that hundreds of Swedish couples seek help each year in Denmark. Attracting donors is not much of a problem in Aarhus, which has a large university population. But only about 10% of those who apply make it through the screening...
Cryos does not maintain the exhaustive profiles of donor characteristics used by U.S. sperm banks. The company limits its data to such fundamentals as hair and eye color, height and ethnic classification, which, says Schou, is the main difference from what he calls the "couture style" U.S. system of merchandising sperm. He is critical of the U.S. reliance on "positive eugenics," his term for the penchant for selecting donors based on detailed genetic, physical and psychological profiles...
...Schou believes sperm banks should practice "negative eugenics," testing for disease and severe genetic defects only to the extent that an average couple would. On the other hand, to supply a global marketplace, he is having to bend his principles. Cryos now supplies a few U.S. clinics with sperm, and in those cases has begun to provide more extensive donor profiles. To service increasing demand for non-Scandinavian ethnic types, Schou cooperates with a handful of overseas sperm banks...
...growing success is provoking some criticism. Charles Sims, a clinical pathologist who co-founded California Cryobank, the best-known U.S. sperm bank, thinks Cryos' claims of market dominance are misplaced. "Sperm is not a commodity," he says. "It's not something you're selling like aspirin." But Ole Schou shrugs off those views. He is passionate about his company's mission to help thousands of would-be parents. In fact, he and his wife are about to become first-time parents--the old-fashioned way. "We've been working at it for many years, and believe...