Word: sonly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House communications expert--this is, after all, a man who spends $80,000 a month on phone bills--as well as a camel caretaker, a muezzin who calls the Muslim faithful to prayer from a minaret, and 18 soccer players whom Alwaleed pays to play games with his son, at his son's private field...
...they used assisted zona hatching, in which the egg's membrane, known as the zona pellucida, is chemically weakened so sperm can penetrate more easily. (Another way to do this is to drill a tiny hole in the egg; both methods are less tricky than full-fledged ICSI.) Their son, Eric Richard, was born in October...
...almost every clinical advance in assisted reproduction leads to unforeseen dilemmas. Take ICSI, which on its face seems utterly benign. In some cases, male infertility may be caused by a genetic defect; helping a man with such a defect reproduce could result in passing the defect on to his son. Also, since sperm can be obtained surgically, they have in a few cases been recovered from men killed in accidents, and then used to father children--a legal quagmire, since the dead cannot give consent...
...March 3, 1993, in Silver Spring, Md., when contract murderer James Perry suffocated eight-year-old quadriplegic Trevor Horn and fatally shot his mother Mildred Horn and nurse Janice Saunders. Perry was hired by Lawrence Horn, Mildred's ex-husband, who was after a $2 million settlement his son had received for the accident that caused his injuries. Perry bought a copy of Hit Man before the killings, and prosecutors showed that he followed at least 20 of its specific instructions. He stole out-of-state license plates and attached them to a rental car that he drove...
...second son of a now divorced college-professor mom and tax-expert dad, Damon grew up in Cambridge, Mass., watching movies, studying the acting styles of idols like Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall and plotting his acting career. His mother, a child-development expert, encouraged her sons to engage in the creative use of blocks and the fun of make-believe. It worked: Damon's brother Kyle, 30, became a sculptor, and young Matt started acting at age 12. By the time he was 17, he'd already got his first movie role, with one line...