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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ericsson's theory is based on the fact that sperm carrying the Y chromosome move somewhat faster than sperm carrying the X. To select males, a sample of semen is placed at the top of a glass column containing a solution of albumin, a sticky protein normally present in such bodily fluids as blood and semen. After an hour, more Y-containing sperm than sluggish Xs should have sped to the bottom. The Y sperm are further concentrated by being run through increasingly thicker solutions of albumin. "It's like making them run the Boston Marathon with overshoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Can Science Pick a Child's Sex? | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...Committee, Howe rendered the solemn judgment that Portnoy's Complaint degraded American Jews. Roth saw the roots of such attacks in history. Wrote the embattled author: "He [the Jew] is not expected to make a spectacle of himself, either by shooting off his mouth or shooting off his semen, and certainly not by shooting off his mouth about shooting off his semen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodbye, Nathan Zuckerman | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...whole life flashed before me," she recalls. "I thought how I really wanted my mom to know I cared about her, and I concentrated on breathing. I was on my period and had a tampon embedded deep inside. I had to sit and talk to a policeman with dried semen all over my face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rape: The Sexual Weapon | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

...dons athletic shorts and runs a 60-yd. dash in a San Francisco track meet. A man who once orbited the earth turns up at a cattle show and enters a contest to guess the weight of a black Simmental bull; first prize is a dozen vials of bull semen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opening the Silly Season | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...with full X rays. "Leg Man" Bob Griffin examined a race horse's most important assets. And because the colt's most important assets will change after his racing days. Sangster's wily genealogist, John Magnier, also had to approve. Says Magnier: "It all follows the semen. If you don't have the semen, you don't have the industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Breeders, Place Your Bets | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

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