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BeautifulPeople.com sells itself as an exclusive website for, well, beautiful people. The site used to accept new members based on their attractiveness judged by a democratic vote of other members. However, once you're a member, you must remain beautiful. The site once expelled 5,000 people because...
Faced with costly in-vitro fertilization treatments and few financing options, couples struggling with infertility are turning to social networking and the web to raise the cash they need.
The Doctor Is In: Stimulus may aid stem cell research
4:00PM 3/14/2009
Now that President Obama has lifted the Bush-era ban on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, a portion of the $10 million allocated for medical research in the stimulus package will likely go towards funding stem cell research. While it may be years or even decades away, the hope is that...
Designer children should be left to fantasy
3:30PM 3/03/2009
In one of Isabel Allende's famously mystical books, a character dreams of her future child while she's in the throes of passion with the man she's chosen as a suitable father. She creates the gender, eye color and skin tone in her mind as she writhes and ... well, you get the picture. The children...
Desperately seeking diapers: Octuplets mom launches website
2:30PM 2/12/2009
Nadya Suleman, the 33-year-old single mother of six who recently gave birth to eight more children through in-vitro treatments, has launched a Web site asking for donations to help support her growing family.
The site, which accepts payments by Visa, Mastercard, AmEx, Discover and PayPal, features...
I wondered this weekend, who would pay for the octuplets (and their six siblings and mom's hospital bills)? It turns out there is an easy answer: come on, big money, big money. Just as opportunistic American media darlings like "bachelorette" Trista & her hubbie Ryan, the Roloff family, and...
The mother of the surprise octuplet babies, it turns out, has no involved partner -- their dad was sperm donor but is not actively involved in their lives. What's more, the six other children at home, all conceived through fertility treatments of some sort, are children of the same man. Further:...
How the flat-broke concert loving dude can score free tickets
11:30AM 3/13/2008
In Dr. Strangelove, General Ripper starts WWIII because he is convinced the commies wanted to sap his precious bodily fluids. Now comes news of a ground-breaking idea in the entertainment and conception business that does just that. Sperm For Tickets is an Irish internet-based business that has...
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