Department Index
Seed 2001:
Exploring the "Nobel Prize sperm bank."
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- The "Genius Babies" Grow Up What happened to 15 children from the Nobel Prize sperm bank?
May 30, 2001 - The Rise of the Smart Sperm Shopper How the Repository for Germinal Choice accidentally revolutionized sperm banking.
April 21, 2001 - Do "Superbabies" Have Super Parents?
April 14, 2001 - No Nobels, One "Failure," a Few Regrets How did the genius sperm-bank donors turn out?
March 30, 2001 - The Nobel Sperm Bank Celebrity Since his birth, brilliant, precocious Doron Blake has symbolized the Repository for Germinal Choice. Now the "superbaby" is an 18-year-old college freshman, and he's longing to be normal.
March 17, 2001 - The Better Baby Business The Nobel sperm bank wasn't the first scheme to breed "superbabies." The weird history of "positive" eugenics.
March 14, 2001 - Still Searching for Donor White (or Coral, or Fuchsia …) The latest on the "Nobel Prize sperm bank" investigation.
March 7, 2001 - A Mother Searches for "Donor White" Ten years ago, she used his sperm to have a daughter. Now she wants to find him, and he wants to find her. But they don't know each other's names.
Feb. 27, 2001 - An Update and a Preview
Feb. 23, 2001 - The Myths of the Nobel Sperm Bank The truth about who gave sperm, how they gave it, and who used it.
Feb. 23, 2001 - The First Responses Two donors, four moms, a possible hoax, many promising stories.
Feb. 14, 2001 - "The Entrepreneur" Speaks A donor tells why he gave the Repository for Germinal Choice his Grade A sperm.
Feb. 13, 2001 - The "Genius Babies," and How They Grew Help Slate tell the story of the Nobel Prize sperm bank.
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