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- What happened to "Judge Crater"?
- www.prairieghosts.com/crater.html
- www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166191,00.html
- Restaurant critic accused of making a false assertion of a fact - http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/worklife/07/02/food.critic.unmasked.ap/index.html
- Judge forced him to make a video deposition, destroying his anonymity at other restaurants.
- Woman with undeveloped arms, (Holt-Oram Syndrome) denied food at McDonalds when she tried to take the food bag with her foot - http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/451958,CST-NWS-mcd02.article
- The woman drives, and has 4 kids, including a son who has one properly developed arm.
- Name: Dawn Larson - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287716,00.html
- If taking steroids is considered cheating, what about LASIK eye surgery? - http://www.slate.com/id/2116858/
- Wavefront, if you've got the bucks for it, reliably gives you 20/16 or better. If your vision ends up corrected but not enhanced, you can go back for a second pass.
- Mother of sextuplets almost dies of heart failure after delivery - http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/91419
- Jenny Masche, 32, was in acute heart failure several hours after giving birth to her three daughters and three sons Monday, Dr. John Elliott said.
- Cause: extra blood flooded out of her uterus and "stretched her heart and blood vessels to a very, very critical level"
- Sextuplets more than 9 weeks premature and weighed between 2 pounds, 1 ounce and 3 pounds. 5 of the 6 were placed on ventilators.
- reproductive adventures that parents expect society to fund:
- "Whatever the bill is going to be, obviously, I'm not going to be able to pay for it," he said.
- "I don't know. I'm hoping that a portion of this bill might be written off by the hospital, given the fact that this is the first time this has ever happened in the state of Arizona."
- Gifts and donations roll in
- Grand Canyon University in Phoenix offered the sextuplets full scholarships, a donation worth an estimated $1.2 million when they're college age in 2025.
- 36 out of 62 comments were not favorable to this story, with the writers taking issue with either irresponsibility on the part of the doctor to put the mother in a situation for this many births, or with the mother being "drunk" and "baby hungry" from the fertility drugs, to the family expecting others to pay for an event that they pursued knowing they would not have the resources to support, and then publicly asking for others to support their reproductive adventure. No attempt was made to figure figure out how many multiple postings were in the 62 comments (although one obvious duplicate was removed from the 63 shown on 7/2/07)
- What happened to "Judge Crater"?
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- The problem with boring video games - It's difficult to make forced education fun - http://www.slate.com/id/2169019/nav/ais/
- Parthenogenesis (virgin birth) http://www.slate.com/id/2168092/
- Many bees, and birds, don't have daddies. Fertilized bee eggs become girls, unfertilized bee eggs become boys. In the absense of a queen bee, some female bees can lay eggs that fertilize themselves.
- Up to 30% of unfertilized turkey eggs can develop into a turkey. Government reports about turkey eggs
- 70 vertebrate species are now know to have parthenogenesis, including fish, chickens, frogs.
- It's now being found at the top of the food chain, even in sharks, snakes, and komodo dragons.
- Female hammerhead shark parthenogen - http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/biology_letters/RSBL20070189.pdf
- Dragons have more males, probably because of parthenogenesis - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7122/abs/4441021a.html
- Parthenogenic snake species - http://www.nature.com/hdy/journal/v90/n2/full/6800210a.html
- An egg that fertilizes itself makes two identical sets of chromosomes, including sex chromosomes. In birds, snakes, and most lizards, two identical sex chromosomes make a male. That allows parthenogenesis to function as a DNA survival mechanism, since an isolated female—close your ears, kids—can produce a son and mate with him. But in sharks or mammals, this wouldn't work, since two identical sex chromosomes—XX—make a female.
- Lizards, and parthenogen males - http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=ShowFulltext&ArtikelNr=96234&Ausgabe=232296&ProduktNr=231547#SA5
- DNA survival mechanism - http://www.livescience.com/animals/061220_virgin_births.html
- Females through pathenogensis - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis#Sharks
- Reproductive plasticity examples - Parthenogenesis is just one of nature's tricks. Worms can divide into smaller worms. Female turtles can store sperm for years. Sea bass can change their sex. Hermaphroditic sharks can fertilize their own eggs. Male ants can commandeer eggs to clone themselves. Some lizard species have reproduced for ages with no apparent male input.
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