Word: sperms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Little Mermaid had a Japanese flag draped at her feet and was blindfolded with an American flag; she was also impaled by a symbolic harpoon. These protests were held around the world last week in the name of peace-peace for the threatened leviathan of the deep, the sperm whale...
...killing of this whale was supposed to have ended after this year's spring hunt by order of the 40-member International Whaling Commission (IWC). But Japan's commercial fleet is still slaughtering sperm whales. And the U.S. Government, to the anguish of environmental groups, is allowing Japan to continue...
...Japanese whaling industry, which employs more than 50,000 people, has been pleading with Tokyo not to put it out of business. At the same time, the government was being pressed by Washington to abide by the ban. Despite this pressure, the Japanese announced that they would catch 400 sperm whales in the 1984-85 season, and in early November a four-ship whaling fleet put out to sea. Two weeks ago, one of the ships returned to port with two sperm whales...
...Frank Godwyn, whose farm near Orlando produces alligators like chickens. Godwyn's company uses a technique of artificial insemination developed by Paul Cardeilhac, a University of Florida veterinarian. Sound waves from a $26,000 machine track the development of the female's egg-bearing follicle, then sperm from an alligator bull is injected at the appropriate moment. If all goes well, fertilized eggs yield snapping, 7-in. babies in 45 days. They grow at 2 ft. a year on Godwyn's farm, vs. about half that rate in the wild, to a harvesting size...
...questions posed by the financing of the new technology. Dr. John Buster of the UCLA School of Medicine has been working since 1979 to develop a technique of embryo transplants for women who are unable to conceive but able to carry a child to term. The husband's sperm is used to impregnate a woman artificially; the embryo is then flushed out and implanted in the man's wife. The first two babies to be produced by this method were born this year...