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...that it’s their own choice.” Homer explained that she discussed the issue with her co-workers, who reassured her that sperm donation was a very legitimate and legal way of earning money. “But I would not place an advertisement for egg donors,” Homer added...
...When Recycling Goes Too Far Tradition demands that mooncakes, those superdense, hypersweet Chinese pastries, be stuffed with egg yolks and lotus seed paste. These days, market-savvy bakers will fill them with anything that a customer might want - candy, fruit, chocolate, even ice cream. But you've got to draw the line at a mooncake made from ... last year's mooncake. Press reports from Nanjing last week accused a now infamous local bakery of filling its sweetmeats - mooncakes are traditional fare for October's Mid-Autumn Festival - with moldy stuffing left over from 2000. China's health ministry has ordered...
...pass, trekkers must traverse a glacier after being linked together with ropes. We safely slid the last 200 m to the bottom, but our stores, which the porters launched after us, smashed into the rocks below with a crunch that could only mean we had had our last egg breakfast. On another occasion, we were hauled on ropes from boulder to boulder across a wild, bridgeless mountain torrent. And once we found ourselves walking a stone path suspended on tree trunks jutting out over a cliff's edge as, above us, the mist closed in on our night's campsite...
Helen Beasley says she did not set out to become a surrogate mother. The 26-year-old legal secretary from Shrewsbury, England, a single mom with a nine-year-old son, was thinking more about becoming a paid egg donor. When she bought her first computer and did some research on the Internet, the tales of childless couples she came across broke her heart, she says, and made her think of going one step further, as some 20,000 surrogate moms do each year in the U.S. "The more I thought about it," she says, "the more I thought...
...past 15 years, though, researchers have learned that at least 50 pairs of these so-called autosomal genes act a little differently. In a process called imprinting, one of each pair is permanently turned on or off, depending on whether it derives from the sperm or the egg...