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...early June they were off Fort Sullivan, which stands at the tail end of a low, sandy, four-mile-long island that is roughly the shape of a sperm whale. It was built to guard the northern entrance to Charles Town Harbor, but its palmetto-wood walls are still incomplete on the shoreward sides, where they stand only 7 feet high. The British would seize the fort and garrison it, Clinton decided, and thus interdict all trade and privateer traffic to and from the busiest port south of Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Grog, Grit and Gunnery | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...psychodrama. And, instead of repeatedly saying "he's one of us" as the narrator says of the rejected Lord Jim, Dysart keeps asking himself, "why should I make this boy one of us, why not leave him in his own world?" For Dysart is the victim of a low sperm count, a Laodicean marriage, and "professional menopause" and he almost wants to preserve Strang's passion in a world he sees as otherwise dull and godless...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Blinding the All-Seeing Gods | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

rain is god's sperm falling in the receptive woman how else to spend a rainy day other than with you seeking sun and stars and heavenly bodies how else to spend a rainy day other than with...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Nothing Black but a Cadillac | 10/9/1975 | See Source »

...production of luteinizing hormone, one of the substances that cause the testes to produce testosterone. After the fifth week, the researchers recorded decreases in the men's testosterone levels. By the end of the eighth week, manufacture of follicle-stimulating hormone, which is also involved in sperm production, was down dramatically too. Within nine weeks, the men's testosterone levels had decreased by an average of one-third-and in some cases to within the range where impotence and infertility could occur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pot and Sex | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

...Edward T. Tyler, 62, gynecological researcher whose work helped to develop the Pill; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. As medical director of the Los Angeles Planned Parenthood center, Tyler ran many early studies of oral contraceptives, and investigated such variants as antipregnancy "vaccines" and a male sperm suppressor. He also tested the fertility drugs that have sharply reduced sterility and made multiple pregnancies common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 11, 1975 | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

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