Word: adame
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...Fifteen years ago I killed my sister." Much of Adam Rapp's Nocturne, now playing at the American Repertory Theater, is as stark as this line. The work is essentially a symphony on the theme of these words. The nameless Son is a humdrum high school student when he accidentally runs over his nine year old sister with a car. He is plucked out of obscurity to occupy the foreground of a blood red stage, where he speaks for two hours on the topic of his sister, his family and his dissatisfaction with life in general, interrupted sporadically by dialogue...
...long snap during a punt in the second quarter, the snap got away from the Crimson's Adam Kingston, who made a desperate, if comical attempt, to throw the ball. It fell incomplete...
Barely two months old, little Adam Nash has already made history. The Colorado infant is the first test-tube baby from an embryo screened and selected for implantation from among several competing embryos in order to provide matching tissue for an ailing older sibling...
Last year Molly's parents underwent in- vitro fertilization to try to create just such a donor; two weeks ago, doctors at Fairview-University Hospital in Minneapolis, Minn., successfully transferred tissue from Adam's discarded umbilical cord into Molly's body...
...making their decision to borrow a bit of Adam's tissue, the Nashes realize that they are exposing themselves to scrutiny--and to criticism. "We're not trying to force our decision on everyone, but we wanted others to know that genetic testing is available," says Lisa Nash, the children's mother. Welcome to the Brave New World, Molly and Adam...