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Birth control prices spike at Fla. schools

BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Prices of common prescription contraceptives have skyrocketed at Florida universities because of short supplies.

School health centers began building stockpiles of birth control Jan. 1, when federal rules changed to remove incentives for drug companies to offer discounted birth control products to universities. However, high demand for the drugs have diminished the stockpiles and driven up prices, the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post reported Thursday.

"We were letting them buy multiple packs, but then we had to discontinue that because we saw this incredible rush," said Dean Kolar, assistant director for student health services at Florida Atlantic University. "We started limiting how much we'd sell to one person, but now we're totally out."

FAU's stockpile of birth control product NuvaRing was depleted in March, sending the price from $15 to $42 as the monthly cost of Ortho Tri-Cylen Lo spiked from $15 to $47.99.

"We're expecting the most sticker shock from women who are returning to campus this month," said Lesley Sacher, director of Florida State University's health center and president of the American College Health Association. "We want them to know that this is a federal regulation and not us trying to gouge them."

Trust fund cash goes to in vitro kids

NEW YORK, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- A New York judge ruled two children created using frozen sperm after their father's death are entitled to a cut of the family fortune.

Renee Roth, in New York Surrogate Court, ruled that the grandchildren of a man identified in court as Martin B. are eligible to receive cash from his trust funds, despite the non-existence of in vitro fertilization when the trusts were created in 1969, the New York Post reported Thursday.

The children, identified as James Mitchell, 2, and Warren, 11 months, had perplexed trustees who were unsure whether to make payments to children because their father, James, died in 2001 -- years before either boy was conceived.

However, Roth wrote that the children are the biological sons of their father and therefore are entitled to the rights that accompany that relation.

"The human desire to have children, albeit by biotechnology, deserves respect, as do the rights of the children born as a result of such scientific advances," Roth wrote.

Fake cops make off with poker machines

DALLAS, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Dallas police say two men disguised as officers have taken gaming machines from at least eight convenience stores in the northern part of Texas.

Dallas police have arrested one man in connection with the crimes, but his name was not released due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, the Dallas Morning News reported Thursday.

John LeBlanc, a clerk at a Mobil gas station in Dallas, said the two men entered the store July 22 and told him that the shop's video poker machines were illegal because they paid out real money. He said the men claimed to be police officers and one wore a police logo t-shirt, carried handcuffs and a radio of some kind.

LeBlanc said he grew suspicious of the men and phoned the real police, but the thieves were gone before officers arrived.

Dallas police said the same men are thought to have hit seven other stores in Dallas, Lewisville, Arlington and Crandall.

"Probably a whole lot more," said police Detective Craig Johnson.

Vegans say sex with meat-eaters stinks

NEW YORK, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Strict vegetarians known as vegans find sex with meat-eaters repulsive, or as one New York vegan described it, "pungent" and "stinky."

New Zealand researcher Annie Potts, of the University of Canterbury's Center for Human-Animal Studies, interviewed 157 vegans, 120 of whom were female, on their sexual preferences.

In an interview with ABC News in New York, Potts said all of the female vegans "didn't want to engage in intimate sex ... because of the smells and tastes of their body fluids."

Vegans take vegetarianism to the maximum, avoiding not only meat but also animal by-products such as eggs, honey and dairy products.

Potts said male vegans were less likely than females to be disgusted about having sex with meat eaters.

New York resident Janna Cunningham, a 46-year-old vegan for the past 10 years agreed with the findings on intimacy with carnivores, according to ABC.

"Their body odor is pungent. Their sweat is extremely smelly," Cunningham told the network. "Their spit, and all their body fluids, are strong and stinky."