Female rats exposed to the hydrocarbon JP8 at the point in pregnancy when their male foetuses were developing gonads had babies with more prostate and kidney abnormalities, and their great-grandchildren had reproductive anomalies, polycystic ovary disease and obesity.

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The idea of doing a dirty Lassie movie is wittier than its execution in this go-for-the-gonads sci-fi flick about a huge guard dog named Max who becomes ultra-possessive of a feckless TV reporter (Ally Sheedy) after she springs him from an animal-experimentation lab.

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Y. art collective, a remote-controlled gray blimp that hovered ominously over the ferry on the way to New Jersey and a cheeky presentation from ICQ founder Yossi Vardi on why excessive heat from laptops seriously impairs male gonads and is the root of population decline in certain nations of the developed world.

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True, we have a lot more choices (often aided by technology) about precisely how we do these things in the modern world but we are still built by a hundred thousand years or so of our own species, tens of millions of years of mammalian evolution, into ending up with slightly different brains and slightly different interests to go along with our very different gonads.

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