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...Made in America sees this, the most obvious difference between Sarah Mathews (Whoopi Goldberg) and Hal Jackson (Ted Danson), as the least of their problems. It's not so much the discovery that, because of a mix-up at a sperm bank, Hal may be the father of her child that sends Sarah into orbit. It's the notion that after he is identified and tracked down, this particular white man, so trashy, so hopelessly incorrect politically and socially, could have ^ provided half the genetic material for her talented, pretty daughter Zora (Nia Long...
...idea is controversial, but two researchers claim the 50% decline in average sperm counts over the past 50 years comes from men's increased exposure to the hormone estrogen. Sources of the estrogen, the theory goes, are milk from hormone-dosed cows and water supplies contaminated by chemical spills...
...family gets along well enough -- "at times," Leo says, "their lunacies harmonized" -- but he is an outsider, an orphan. These people think he is theirs. Leo knows better: "Because I dream, I'm not." He is half Italian: Leolo Lozone, conceived during his mother's fruitful collision with a sperm-soaked Sicilian tomato. A bright, lonely boy could not be the spawn of this horrid clan. Surely he is not destined to replicate their mean lives and dead-end careers or the madness to which they are all heir. And so, in this slum of bruised humanity that never seems...
...PEOPLE THINK THAT RADIOLOGISTS CAN ACTUALly treat medical conditions; they handle the X rays. Maybe patients should think again, particularly men with an infertility problem: varicose veins in the testes. About 15% of men have such abnormalities, which apparently heat the testicles and damage sperm...
CATASTROPHE. THE HUMAN RACE IS approaching extinction because all male sperm is sterile. But listen. England's green and pleasant land is still surprisingly intact. In P.D. James' THE CHILDREN OF MEN (Knopf; $22) the country is ruled by a dictator who has canceled most civil liberties. But the middle class still prospers, and Oxford shelters scholars like Theo Faron. Because he is the strongman's cousin, he is approached by a pretty member of a dissident group. Her fellows turn out to be cliches, and, of course, she gets pregnant. Sci-fi is a cottage industry...