Word: sperms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AUGUSTA. Ga.--A sperm bank that opened next door to the University of Georgia recently had so many first day student donors that it had to stop taking new applicants for two weeks...
...truck driver: their second child, a girl; in Bristol, England. Name: Natalie Jane. Weight: 5 lbs. 12 oz. Like Louise, her healthy sister, who will be four next month, Natalie was conceived in a Petri dish by doctors uniting mother's egg and father's sperm. About 30 children have been born through the same technique; the Browns are the first couple to have a second separately implanted child...
...worried about low temperatures of 22° in the northern mountains where about half the state's $4 million apple crop is grown, sprayed their orchards with water to form protective ice around the buds. Iowa State University Veterinarian John Herrick, noting that testicular frostbite can interfere with sperm production, urged ranchers to check their bulls for sterility. But for some the weather proved a financial boon. Ski-resort operators in New Jersey and New Hampshire, with a foot of new snow, extended their seasons...
Impairment of Reproductive and Immune Systems. Regular marijuana use cuts down on the number and activity of sperm, but there is no proof of resulting loss of fertility. Studies on animals have shown a decrease in ovulation and female reproductive hormone levels. Marijuana is known to pass through the placenta, but the committee found "no evidence yet" of birth defects in human fetuses. Nor is there conclusive evidence that marijuana causes any chromosome damage or suppresses the body's ability to protect itself against infection...
...like scientific paparazzi, on the private lives of all creatures great and small. Probably never has any program shown so many forms of courtship and copulation: millipedes writhing in combinations too complicated to comprehend, goggle-eyed newts climbing atop each other, fish defying the hazards of nature to bring sperm to egg, frogs singing hoarse epithalamiums in ponds and swamps. Only fast-flying swifts, which mate on the wing, seem able to escape the prying lens...