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...cloning became common, then sex -- along with male and female genders -- would be unnecessary. That's the conceit of books such as Charles Eric Maine's World Without Men (1958) and Poul Anderson's Virgin Planet (1959). Conversely, cloning might be a device for preserving love. The 1991 British TV miniseries The Cloning of Joanna May, based on a Fay Weldon novel, is about a man who dumps his unfaithful wife -- but only after cloning her so he can replace her with her twin a few years down the line...
...Anderson, Weld Professor of AtmosphericChemistry, is main occupant of The Link. Tenuredin both Chemistry and EPS, he is renowned forairborne expeditions over Antarctica, where he andhis crew study atmospheric ozone levels. The grouphe oversees will occupy two floors. "One of thebiggest motivations for constructing The Link wasthat the major occupant, Jim Anderson, provides anintellectual link between the two departments,"says Long...
Jerry Connors, assistant director of thechemistry laboratories, says Anderson is the idealoccupant for The Link. "He's currently up thestreet [in the Engineering Sciences Laboratory]but he really belongs down here. It's where hiscolleagues are, where the students are, wherethere's more interaction. That's what this placeis about...
...building fits the scientists like an enzymefits its substrate. For example, an innovativeframe support, called a gantry, stretches over thecourtyard from Anderson's second-floor lab. Whenhis group builds a particularly hefty apparatusand needs to ship it out, they can place it in alarge box, open the wide doors, and lower it usingthe gantry onto a truckbed below. From there, thetruck drives it to the airport for its tripsouth--to Antarctica. A well-placed gantry is agodsend...
...production starts off at a confused, hurried pace, the audience soon becomes intrigued by the world of Sydney Bruhl (Brad Rouse), a soon-to-be has-been playwright who, we are led to believe, would kill for the chance to resuscitate his fading career. When former student Clifford Anderson (Ross Benjamin) sends him a copy of his just finished, extremely promising play entitled Deathtrap, Bruhl invites the awe-inspired youth to bring all the existing drafts to his home for some one-on-one mentoring. Hardly altruistic, Bruhl is creating a deathtrap of his own. As soon...