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Previous Volume 343:373-376 August 3, 2000 Number 5

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On his 10-year voyage back to Ithaca from the Trojan War, Ulysses was warned by Circe to take precautions if he wanted to hear the Sirens' transfixing song, or there would be "no sailing home for him, no wife rising to meet him, /no happy children beaming up at their father's face."¹ Ulysses accordingly ordered his men to stop their ears with beeswax and bind him firmly to the mast and instructed them that if he gestured to be set free, they should stick to the original agreement and bind him tighter still. Making an agreement that has as a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Using Stored Embryos for Reproduction

Destruction or Research Use of Embryos

Use of Stored Embryos for Research

What Should Be Done?

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