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...hunting-gathering society that flourished before the dawn of history, she argues, man and woman were equal. Then, some time during the neolithic revolution, man realized that semen made babies. The consequence: women were reduced in stature and left uneducated, housebound, perpetually pregnant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Private Relations, Public Parts | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...slow down, huh?" he pleaded. The wolf was now treading familiar woods, full of scent and semen...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Of Wolves and Men | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...exponent of the building as sight gag is Chicago Architect Stanley Tigerman. His best-known visual joke is the Daisy House in Porter Beach, Ind. The house is in the shape of a phallus; a flight of white concrete steps, cascading down to the lake shore, represents the semen. Tigerman can also be serious, as in his award-winning Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped at the University of Illinois' Chicago Circle campus. Since most blind people are at least partly sighted, and can register color, the library is candied with bright primary hues; and though its windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Their Own Thing | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...founder and president of World-Wide Sires Inc. of Hanford, Calif., Willard Clark has an occupation that would stump the old What's My Line? panel: he sells bull semen. Acting as a broker for nine artificial-insemination cooperatives, Clark ships the frozen semen of prize U.S. bulls (mainly Holsteins) to more than 40 countries, including the Soviet Union. Now Clark is looking to China, where he also hopes to hog the market for swine semen. His business is only seven years old, and he expects sales this year to reach $5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Offbeat Exports | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...less expensively, and we will have the opportunity for much more export." He is crossing U.S. breeds with European stock to produce "exotic" cattle that grow fatter faster or produce more milk. This is done by artificial insemination. Says Garst: "We have one of the largest accumulations of exotic semen from Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Advice and Dissent | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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