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...time to turn to the always hysterical News Quiz...O.K. Tennis great BORIS BECKER, target of a $4.8 million paternity suit filed by Russian model Angela Ermakova in a London court, is, according to numerous European press reports, preparing a defense that accuses Ermakova of impregnating herself with his sperm following an oral- sex rendezvous in the broom closet of a London restaurant. German and British reports also had Becker's attorneys trying to draw a link between Ermakova and the Russian mob, which may have used his philandering in an extortion attempt. Becker, who was divorced from wife Barbara...
...world's wildlife researchers as an ever growing number of species become imperiled each year. Oliver Ryder, a geneticist at the San Diego Zoo's Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species, is the driving force behind a 25-year effort to assemble a bank of frozen dna, eggs and sperm from endangered species. Under his direction, the frozen zoo now has living cells from 5,400 animals spanning more than 400 species and subspecies, cultured and frozen in liquid nitrogen...
After years of watching one species after another become extinct, researchers are sounding optimistic. "We don't have the right to do nothing," says Mauget, who predicts that interzoo exchanges of sperm, oocytes and embryos will develop rapidly. "Instead of shipping our animals from one zoo to another, we'll be sending sperm to the four corners of the earth." Meanwhile, in a corner of Iowa, another kind of delivery is awaited...
...Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche, above, kept it simple: they laughed, they danced, they broke up. For director Julie Cypher and rocker Melissa Etheridge, things were more complex: they too split, but only after announcing, earlier in the year, that their two kids had been sired with the donated sperm of David Crosby. Bi-sexual tri-partite custody...
...stand out or assimilate, flame or simmer. All of them, pushing or just past 30, face the tyranny of age in the Logan's Run-like club scene. And Brian, an irresistible, bed-hopping Peter Pan, is suddenly beset with unwanted responsibility: for his new son (he donated sperm to the lesbians); for Justin, his lovestruck, naive pursuer; and for a friend who names Brian his living-will executor, entrusting him to pull the plug because "you're a heartless...