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...you’re out.”But the experience wasn’t the quickie James had expected. After filling out a brief online survey, each candidate is notified of his acceptance. After clearing that hurdle, he is invited in to give a specimen and fill out more paperwork. The swimmers are examined “to determine sperm count, motility, progression, morphology and freezing traits to ensure that it meets our standards,” according to California Cryobank’s Web site. For James, this was no problem. “I had the right...
...Usually, we worry more about false negatives, which sometimes can happen early in the stage of some diseases, or inadequate sampling of a specimen,” Gharib writes in an e-mail...
...affair, but it wasn't always all zombies and asteroids and Mel Gibson. It has a long and distinguished literary history. As early as 1826, Mary Shelley--who also wrote Frankenstein--published a novel called The Last Man, in which a plague whittles humanity down to a single final specimen. In Samuel Beckett's play Endgame, crippled wretches crouch in a miserable bunker after some ambiguous, eschatological catastrophe, swapping gallows one-liners as their supplies dwindle...
...million Age, in years, of a girl's skeleton-thought to be the oldest remains ever found of a child-recently unearthed in Ethiopia 150,000 Estimated number of years after the death of the child, nicknamed Lucy's Baby, that Lucy, the most famous primitive human specimen, walked the earth
...Estimated number of years after the death of the child, nicknamed Lucy's Baby, that Lucy, the most famous primitive human specimen, walked the earth...