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...percent of Palestinians survive on an average of $2 a day, says a report by Christian Aid $33,000 has been charged by a restaurant in Changsha, China, for a banquet cooked with human breast milk Omen Sperm banks are giving deep discounts to U.S. soldiers eager to store their sperm before departing for Iraq, where fertility risks include possible exposure to chemical weapons
...disease and Crohn's disease. This time around researchers are taking stringent precautions against any possible embryo-damaging side effects. They insist that women of childbearing age use two forms of contraception and undergo pregnancy tests before starting thalidomide treatment, and that men also use contraception in case sperm might be affected. They advise too that the precautions continue for a month after the last treatment. Even though more clinical trials and several years of research are needed before thalidomide could be approved for use, the drug's potential is real. What was once the most feared drug...
...Omen A U.S. study has found that men from rural areas have lower sperm counts than those from urban areas, prompting fears that ex-posure to agricultural chemicals may carry long-term health risks
...make a whole new person. Of course, the most virulent opponents of cloning will not soon want to ban tooth-brushing. But they insist that the potential for life must be protected and oppose cloning human embryos for research purposes, even if the DNA comes not from a sperm and an egg but from an everyday skin cell. The potential for life found in normal skin cells, however, is of less concern. This inconsistency shows the difficulty of maintaining that the potential for human life should be treated with the same respect as a full-grown person. The opponents...
...centuries. Depending on the currents and swell, it can be anything from a four-to seven-hour odyssey in a small, pitching craft from the Flores town of Larantuka. Sometimes months go by without a single whale sighting, but if you happen to be present when a bull sperm whale is harpooned you will think you've been swept back to the days of Nantucket whaling and Moby Dick. Getting on a boat will require Ahab's dogged determination?the best way is to hop on a bus to Larantuka Harbor and, once there, negotiate with the local whalers...