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- <title>
- Feb. 11, 1991: Keeping Their Traits On Ice
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Feb. 11, 1991 Saddam's Weird War
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 17
- Keeping Their Traits on Ice
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- <p>By Guy Garcia/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- <p> The gulf crisis has brought an increase in business for
- sperm banks. Many couples decided to have the husbands' sperm
- frozen before the men went off to war, so that their legacy
- would endure even if they were injured or killed. The San Diego
- branch of the Fertility Center of California, not far from the
- Camp Pendleton Marine base, has set up accounts for 100
- military couples over the past few months. But with so many
- troops shipped out, the pace has slowed. Explains a spokeswoman
- for the center: "There are very few young men left in town."
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- </body></article>
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