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...lighters. Long before Dunhill became associated with that guilty pleasure, it encouraged another: the love affair with the car. The company began life 112 years ago in London as a purveyor of automobile accessories and the name Dunhill became synonymous with the kind of high-end driving instruments the smart set bought. Company founder Alfred Dunhill - who famously declared that he sold "everything but the motor" - retailed nonessentials for the car lover, from high-tech driving goggles and dashboard clocks to driving gloves, which he introduced to the world long before the brand began selling menswear...
...Tall and willing, clean health history, free of genetic disease, nice as possible, smart as possible, as good looking as possible and a high sperm count...
...seduced into this. You’re wanted and you get the perception that you’re special. Particularly in the case of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank, but the same is true at any sperm bank. You’re healthy enough, you’re smart enough, you have a high sperm count. Part of the lesson I got from—when I was able to qualify and was actually considering it, even though I had completely dismissed it before the examination—is that there is a strong element of raw male ego within...
...don’t think it has anything to do with the sperm they got. First, the donors didn’t turn out to be the great men of the age. The incredibly smart kid came from Donor Corals’ [one of the less accomplished donors] sperm. In many ways, it is a tribute to nurture. Considering that these are the women who would seek out a place called the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank, it’s no surprise they have turned out accomplished. These are exceptionally attentive mothers in prosperous homes pushing their children to fully...
...profound improvement in American life by inventing shatterproof lenses—a genuinely huge advance. And he was motivated by essentially noble, and relatively harmless, goals. But he suffered from the problem of hyper-rationalists everywhere—the belief that the world would work perfectly if only smart people like me were allowed to control it and keep the morons in line...