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AUGUSTA. Ga.--A sperm bank that opened next door to the University of Georgia recently had so many first day student donors that it had to stop taking new applicants for two weeks...
Donald Zeh. the manager of the sperm bank which is a branch of Xytex Corp., attributes the run on his bank to easy money. Zeh said the bank pays donors $20 each, and students could make a donation every two days...
...truck driver: their second child, a girl; in Bristol, England. Name: Natalie Jane. Weight: 5 lbs. 12 oz. Like Louise, her healthy sister, who will be four next month, Natalie was conceived in a Petri dish by doctors uniting mother's egg and father's sperm. About 30 children have been born through the same technique; the Browns are the first couple to have a second separately implanted child...
...worried about low temperatures of 22° in the northern mountains where about half the state's $4 million apple crop is grown, sprayed their orchards with water to form protective ice around the buds. Iowa State University Veterinarian John Herrick, noting that testicular frostbite can interfere with sperm production, urged ranchers to check their bulls for sterility. But for some the weather proved a financial boon. Ski-resort operators in New Jersey and New Hampshire, with a foot of new snow, extended their seasons...
Impairment of Reproductive and Immune Systems. Regular marijuana use cuts down on the number and activity of sperm, but there is no proof of resulting loss of fertility. Studies on animals have shown a decrease in ovulation and female reproductive hormone levels. Marijuana is known to pass through the placenta, but the committee found "no evidence yet" of birth defects in human fetuses. Nor is there conclusive evidence that marijuana causes any chromosome damage or suppresses the body's ability to protect itself against infection...