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Last September the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco reinstated the lawsuit filed by federal inmate William Gerber against the warden of Lancaster State Prison, who would not allow Gerber to send his semen to a Chicago sperm bank to be used in artificially inseminating his wife. The court ruled that Gerber, who’s serving a 111-year term for drugs and weapons charges, had a constitutional right to procreate….The next month, Mexican rock star Gloria Trevi, a prisoner in Rio de Janeiro, reportedly inseminated herself with smuggled sperm in order to become pregnant and avoid extradition to Mexico….And in November 2001 the sheriff of Syracuse, New York, reported that a man and wife, both inmates, had conceived a child during their two-minute “contact visit.” The wife later said they only needed 30 seconds.
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Last October, Kentucky became the latest state to take legal action against entrepreneur Dennis Lee for marketing a machine that he says generates electricity. Lee claims he can power an internal combustion engine using a fuel synthesized from water, gas, crude oil, soy sauce, soda pop, perfume, pickle juice, and human urine.
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Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
