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Folk-rock grudge match and the unmanning of men
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., Dec. 22, 2006
A new study by the New England Research Institutes has found a "substantial" drop in U.S. men's testosterone levels since the 1980s.
The concept of the Yoda character being connected with Santa Claus is not as strange as it may seem. In 1981, Lucasfilm's Christmas card featured him dressed as St. Nick. In 2002, Hasbro produced a Yoda action figure in a Kris Kringle costume.The number of Web sites in the world has passed 100 million.
In the 1920s, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin sent an animal-breeding expert to Africa in hopes of creating an army of half-man, half-ape soldiers and laborers. Attempts to inseminate women with monkey or ape sperm and female chimpanzees with human sperm failed.
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