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...Conspiracy Theory" opens, appropriately, with Jerry spouting tales of Nobel prize-winning scientists having their frozen sperm stored beneath the ice skating rink in Rockefeller Center, NASA conspiring to kill the President by conducting sonic tests in orbit resulting in major earthquakes along fault lines (the President was going to be in Turkey along a fault line) and perhaps funniest of all, the government putting the metal strip in the new $100 bills as a tracking device; Jerry generously warns a female passenger that if she has any of the bills to get rid of them immediately...
When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976, the base tuition was $3,790. I paid the bill with a combination of cash from my parents, wages from my summer job as a park supervisor and from a school job cleaning pig sperm from laboratory beakers, and a bank loan guaranteed by New York State. I still managed to have a pretty good time. In addition to learning to recite Pushkin in Russian, I got to experience such wonders of campus life as seeing a friend jump up on a barroom table and pull her bra out through...
...insurance and personal expenses, such as travel between school and home, and the actual total--as Penn recently informed students accepted for early admission--comes to $31,582. This is real money. In 1975 my summer job alone covered a significant chunk of my senior-year costs. The pig sperm was gravy. If my three daughters decide to go to Penn--or Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Swarthmore, Brown, Stanford, M.I.T., Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Chicago or Johns Hopkins--the entire bill for 12 years of school will exceed $350,000. And that's assuming tuition never rises another penny...
DIED. ROBERT KLARK GRAHAM, 90, optical physicist who developed shatterproof plastic eyeglass lenses; in Seattle. Later in life Graham established a controversial sperm bank for Nobel Prize winners. He was criticized as a eugenicist, but his bank has been credited with fathering more than 200 children...
DIANE BLOOD Can you conceive it? Court clears way for British widow to use dead hubby's sperm...