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Like almost all U.S. farmers, the cattleman is aggrieved. For four years the prices that he collects have buckled like a sick calf, while the costs of everything he buys-gasoline, fertilizer, tetracycline for ailing heifers, tractors from Peoria and bull semen from France-have climbed like corn in August. And just when he had started to make a comeback, a politically motivated peanut farmer from Georgia cut him off at the knees by letting in a lot of imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View: The Cattlemen's Complaint | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...legal problems, some have already opted for surrogate mothers. Debbie and George, a couple who came to light after Keane's publicity, say they asked a good friend to bear George's child. Debbie herself impregnated the woman with a tube filled with her husband's semen. All three, plus baby, are now living together. Keane is representing two other couples who have hired surrogates. Yet another case has been reported in the San Francisco Chronicle: a married California Sunday-school teacher paid an unmarried woman $7,000, plus medical expenses, to bear his child. The baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Hiring Mothers | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...former revolutionary whose total cynicism masks his despair, to Marcel, an artist who finds animals more interesting than people and who is preoccupied with the fate of the whale, to Madeleine, an efficient secretary who espouses tantrism and returns constantly to the value of holding back one's semen so the lotus will explode in one's head. But they are all borderline cases, and they know it. Despite their ideological differences, they learn in the course of the movie to accept each others' eccentricities--none of them is any better adjusted to the world in which they find themselves...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Out on the Fringe | 1/5/1977 | See Source »

Like Lassa fever, Marburg virus disease is highly infectious. Though scientists still do not know the exact mechanism, the disease can be transmitted by contact with infected blood, tissue and even semen; it may also be spread by particles in the air. No cure has yet been found, although doctors are hoping a serum can be made from blood of surviving victims who have antibodies against the virus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Killer on the Loose | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...camera cuts between the back of his neck, to which the passenger speaks, and Travis's face, which reflects a mixture of horror and fascination. Prostitutes fellate businessmen in his cab--Travis's role is to remain oblivious, and, at the end of the night, to clean the semen stains off the back seat...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: Burnt Out at the Bellmore | 3/5/1976 | See Source »

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