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...John F. Kerry, D-Mass., was hailed as a war hero turned peacemaker by speaker after speaker, the Brothers preferred to dub themselves the “men of the epididymis.” To live up to the title, three of the four avant-garde jugglers donned spermatozoan headgear and sang of the miracles of conception while the last ersatz sibling lolled about the stage in the filmy garb of a gigantic ovum...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester and Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Puns, Politics and Lots of Flying Balls | 8/6/2004 | See Source »

...recovered easily from the chill.† Afterward, at various intervals, Shapiro removed the cold-fertilized ova from the rabbits, found some of them well along toward embryonic development. If he learns why & how mere cold can fertilize a mammalian egg, Shapiro may thereby explain how the meeting of spermatozoan and ovum forms the beginning of another human life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ice Packs for Fathers | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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