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...title role in Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick is played by a white sperm whale that got one of Captain Ahab's legs-and eventually got the whole of him. Moby Dick himself escaped triumphantly, and flesh & blood whalers have claimed that nothing like him was ever harpooned before or since...
Vladimir Nabokov, visiting lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literature, and Theodore Morrison, professor of English, both agreed that critics would not revert to a literal interpretation of the novel now that a French vessel has reported the capture of a real albino sperm whale...
...whale was reported captured and killed by the French ship Anglo Norse. The crew took photographs of the beast to certify their catch, and according to the production manager of the whaling fleet of which the Anglo Norse was a member, this was the first albino sperm whale ever taken...
...Daddy's 3,000 Years Old" After reading that human sperm might be deep-frozen and used for artificial insemination years after the father's death (TIME, Aug. 27), an indignant Englishwoman wrote to the New Statesman and Nation...
British scientists at last week's meeting also heard that a few of their colleagues had all but solved one of the biggest problems in artificial insemination: the preservation of sperm over long periods. Frozen in a solution of glycerin (which acts as a cushion, preventing ice crystals from destroying cell life), spermatozoa from rabbits and poultry have already been preserved for as long as 33 days. "We have ... to contemplate," said Dr. A. S. Parkes of London's National Institute for Medical Research, "the possibility of an animal begetting progeny long after its death . . . We have also...