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...superhero "had fallen beneath the whirling thresher blades of changing tastes." By the '50s, Kavalier and Clay are not only old hat but also targets of a congressional committee investigating the effects of comic books on children. Then, like Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the real-life team that begat Superman, Chabon's fictional duo lose the rights to their character in a dispute with cutthroat publishers. Screwing the talent is an old story, but never before told with as much imagination, verve and affection as can be found in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay...
...town) 26. D.D.E.'s WW II oversight 27. Tie breakers in some sports, briefly 29. Bay of Fundy phenomenon 30. At some point, a lawyer gives it a rest 32. WW II enlistee 36. They've got a new logo and a new commitment to rider satisfaction 38. Seth begat him 39. Id, it's not 40. Thompson, who's eyeing the Veep spot 41. Cranks up 42. Robert Reich's subj. 43. Killed, biblically speaking 46. "Sail __Ship of State!" 47. J. Fred Muggs, for one 48. A brother of Joltin' Joe 49. Antonym: abbr...
...Dolly begat Millie, Christa, Alexis, Carrel and Dotcom... The British company that shocked the world by producing the first cloned sheep announced Tuesday that it had produced five cloned piglets - and not only that, certain genes had been "knocked out" of some organ cells of the above-named piglets, signaling a breakthrough in the medical application of cloning technology: Knocking out the genes prevents a human recipient from rejecting a pig organ transplant. "This opens the door to making modified pigs whose organs and cells can be successfully transplanted into humans - the only near-term solution to solving the worldwide...
...success of Question begat The $64,000 Challenge, in which those who had won $8,000 or more on Question could reappear. And then there was Twenty-One, which premiered on NBC Sept. 12, 1956. This program, chiefly the brainchild of producer Dan Enright, roughly adapted the rules of blackjack to a TV-quiz format: two contestants, two isolation booths, a series of questions worth from 1 to 11 points and drawn from 108 categories. Not only were these rules cutthroat; they were virtually impossible. No one would watch a show featuring two people being baffled by question after question...
...that it was possible to outthink the enemy. Einstein wrote a letter to Roosevelt urging the making of a uranium bomb, and soon a coterie of can-do intellectuals convened at Los Alamos to become the new cowboys of war machinery. Presidents have relied on eggheads ever since: Einstein begat Kissinger begat Rubin, Reich and Greenspan...