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Their new hope can be traced to the birth of Louise Brown in England in 1978. Louise was the world's first test-tube baby, conceived by means of in vitro fertilization, in which, after her mother's egg and father's sperm were united in a laboratory, the resulting embryo was implanted in her mother's womb. Louise's subsequent, internationally celebrated birth launched a new branch of medicine that has come to be known as "assisted reproductive technology...
Parental intervention can still save some of these barely visible blobs of protoplasm, and last week a few did get last-minute reprieves. But despite the best efforts of clinic officials, the majority of these "parents"--couples who had donated egg and sperm in an attempt at in-vitro fertilization (IVF)--cannot or will not be located. Without word from the parents within five years, British law requires that the embryos be destroyed. And so, after last-ditch appeals to the courts and Prime Minister John Major failed, the clinics began dumping the eggs and embryos like so much abandoned...
...mostly shrugged them off. But one of Germany's biggest magazines has pushed him too far. Cruise, who has two adopted children with wife NICOLE KIDMAN, is suing Bunte for $60 million for quoting him in a Q.-and-A. as saying that he has a "zero sperm count." According to Cruise's publicist Pat Kingsley, "Not only is it not true, but he didn't say it." Bunte, which just lost a lawsuit to Princess Caroline, has fired its deputy editor but says many magazines have made this claim before...
...proceeds to rocket, upside-down, toward the bar hanging nearly 20 ft. above his head. He has barely cleared the bar when one official turns to the other with an unusual confession. "Damn," he exclaims. "Check out Bubka. Wish that guy'd agree to be my wife's sperm donor...
...after the donor's death, by the world's smartest physicist or most talented violinist or most accomplished adventurer? That isn't so preposterous as it may sound. A few years back, William Shockley, Nobel-prizewinning co-inventor of the transistor, attracted ridicule by making a deposit in a sperm bank that accepted donations only from men with high IQs. But with biological immortality as a lure, more of the world's most accomplished men--or, failing that, a bunch of rock stars and politicians--might be only too happy to sign...