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Article: Breeding A Better Baby, Maybe.(FYI: Facts, Answers, Oddities & Entertainments For A Month Of Science/Book Review)
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- Popular Science
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- August 1, 2005
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Byline: Jonathon Keats
Twenty-five years ago, a retired optometrist named Robert Graham set out to save the planet. As the inventor of unbreakable plastic eyeglass lenses, he certainly had the cash to do great good as a traditional philanthropist, building libraries, say, or endowing scholarships for disadvantaged youth. Instead the Southern California eccentric changed the world in a more unusual way. He used his millions to found the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank.
Graham intended for the bank, officially called the Repository for Germinal Choice, to contain sperm donated exclusively by Nobel Prize winners. It was troubled from the start. Some speculated that ...