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...profit Genetics & IVF Institute involves staining sperm cells with a DNA-sensitive fluorescent dye and then passing them single file through a laser beam. The cells are sorted based on the amount of light reflected by the fluorescent DNA. It's painstaking work -- sorting a single batch takes the better part of a day -- but the results speak for themselves: Of 14 pregnancies produced so far for couples who wanted a girl, 13 fetuses were female. Not entirely foolproof, but pretty close...
...Lincoln--he has a doctorate in education--in what can be attributed to either the ceaseless wonder of America's entrepreneurial spirit or a particularly good batch of hooch, invented the Testicle Festival. "I dabbled in poetry when I was young, and it just sort of rolled off the tongue," says Lincoln, who requests that details of his education be downplayed...
WASHINGTON: In the Lewinsky case, being called in by Judge Norma Holloway Johnson is the nearest thing to taking a trip to the principal's office. Johnson was working overtime Monday night, hauling Starr prosecutors, White House counsels and the latest batch of Lewinsky lawyers into her chambers for a stern lecture on why they shouldn't talk to strange reporters. The reason for the reprimand: Growing controversy over Ken Starr's interview with Brill's Content magazine cofounder Steve Brill, in which Starr admitted leaking sensitive information to selected journalists. The Justice Department now says it's "examining" Brill...
...actually was? In May 1993 Garza-Valdes traveled to Turin, microscope in hand, and was put in touch with Giovanni Riggi, the microanalyst who had parceled out the 1988 samples. Riggi let Garza-Valdes examine a tiny piece of shroud that he assured him came from the same batch. Sure enough, Garza-Valdes discovered a bioplastic film. "I knew immediately that the coating was there," he says. Riggi gave him a couple of threads and a bloodstain sample to take home...
...period. But don't bank on 25% or 30% a year when the long-term market average is only 11%. And buying Wal-Mart just because the parking lot is full has become a quaint cliche. It might have worked for Peter Lynch in the '80s. But the Beardstown batch tried it in the '90s and discovered yet another recipe--the one for crow...