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...sperm, or a donor's egg may be fertilized with the husband's sperm, or, in yet another scenario, the husband and wife contribute their sperm and egg, but the resulting embryo is carried by a third party who is, in a sense, donating the use of her womb. "The possibilities are limited only by your imagination," observes Clifford Grobstein, professor of biological science and public policy at the University of California, San Diego. Says John Noonan, professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley: "We really are plunging into the Brave New World...
...least two to eight cells in size, it is placed in the woman's uterus. During this procedure, which requires no anesthetic, Steptoe likes to have the husband present talking to his wife. "The skill of the person doing the replacement is very important," he says. "The womb doesn't like things being put into it. It contracts and tries to push things out. We try to do it with as little disturbance as possible...
...from the center of the galaxy, astronomers were sure that the bulge of dust was a maternity ward for new stars. Now the strange arc has revealed itself as one mighty source of those waves, raising the startling possibility that the middle of the Milky Way is a barren womb. Seeking to solve the mysteries, astronomers will return to the Very Large Array again and again, tracking the motion of the gas within the filaments and possibly the origins of the dynamo at the core of the galaxy, where the answer to many questions may be revealed...
...Scott D. Bennett of Simpsonville, Ky., synchronized Kelly's reproductive cycle with that of a pregnant Grant's zebra residing at the zoo. Flushing out a ten-day-old embryo from the zebra's uterus with a sterile solution, the two vets implanted it in the womb of the quarter horse. Safely lodged, the embryo gestated for 366 days, slightly longer than the average term for either species...
...literary critic George Neveaux wrote, "The entire theatre of an era came out of the womb of that play, Six Characters." Pirandello's revolution in form and content profoundly influenced the works of Sartre, Anouilh, Genet, Camus, Ionesco, Beckett, and many other playwrights. Pirandello's dramaturgy contributed significantly to this new form of theatre--his acceptance of the stage for what it was, his knowledge that it did not need to be a true-to-life copy of the real thing. He saw the stage as a place of magic and illusion...