"It is true that future fertility techniques may well be able to help a sterile or near-sterile child reproduce but that may be an outcome that parents do not want to risk and they may instead turn to a known-to-be-fertile sperm donor, " he said.

MSN: Pass it on: Sons of infertile men may be next

Our subway system may not be as spotless or as sterile as Hong Kong's or Tokyo's, but it's got character.

WSJ: Message for the MTA

"The developed countries must avoid a sterile triumphalism or a one-medicine-cures-all prescription, " Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) meeting in Bangkok last week.

CNN: Toward One World

The recall involves 16 sterile compound products dispensed on or after January 1.

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The board also will investigate "sterile cockpit rules, " or requirements that crews discuss only aircraft issues during critical phases of flight, such as take-offs and landings.

CNN: Source: Wrong move possibly made before Buffalo plane crash

Such sterile fields will offer little or no food or shelter to wildlife, and there is already evidence that the genes for herbicide resistance can spread to wild relatives of crop plants, leaving us with weeds resistant to weedkiller.

BBC: Prince Charles speaks out against GM food

Like surgeons, or engineers in a nuclear reactor, they wore sterile booties.

NEWYORKER: The Olympian

The meat was cooked alone or as a stew with very rich stock then placed in hot sterile jars and pressure-cooked to ensure freshness and preservation.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

When most people think of Singapore, if they do at all, they think of an order-obsessed Asian version of Wall Street or London's Canary Wharf, only with implausibly clean, sterile streets and no crime.

WSJ: Wealth Over the Edge | WSJ.Money Spring 2013