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...that standard is fuzzy and provides little guidance when the clash involves an assortment of eggs, sperm and wombs. When Marybeth Whitehead decided to back out of her surrogacy contract, the court ordered a custodial arrangement that amounted to parenting by committee...
...best-known performance boosters, these hormones (testosterone is one) signal the body to pump out more amino acids. Like creatine, they permit muscles to recover faster from tough workouts. But the side effects include elevated cholesterol, uncontrollable outbursts of anger, possibly liver disease and cancer. Men can develop low sperm counts. Women may grow hair on their faces, lose hair from their scalps, get acne, stop menstruating and see their breasts shrink. (See related story in PERSONAL TIME...
...When sperm hits the air, does it die or stay alive for 10 days...
...designer drug Ecstasy, a scientist told the country's Truth Commission today. Dr. Johan Koekemoer said he was told the drug would be used to incapacitate enemies of the apartheid regime. Even amid tales of government laboratories' producing poison-filled umbrellas and conducting bizarre experiments on the sperm count of baboons, the suggestion that apartheid's secret weapon was a party drug was hard to take seriously, according to TIME South Africa bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. "This was clearly a bit of freelance work by people using secret military resources to build a profitable business," says Hawthorne. In other words...
COMEBACK KIDS Microdot, a technique for reversing vasectomies, can improve a man's chances of fertility. In reattaching the 0.01-in. duct that carries sperm, doctors use a microscope and tiny marking pen to plan sutures more precisely...