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One of the charms of boarding Thomas' train of thought is the puckish delight he takes in turning beliefs or assumptions upside down. The current to-do about the likelihood of cloning humans? Not worth worrying about, Thomas says, and impossible besides. But (and most of his essays pivot...
The man behind this comic madness is the product of a comfortable but solitary upbringing. The last child of a Ford Motor Co. vice president, Williams grew up in Chicago, the Detroit suburbs and Tiburon, near San Francisco. When left alone, he summoned up his own world, maneuvering his toy...
The miracle of 34th Street this year is cloning. Macy's has four Santas going at once. Western Temporaries, an employment agency in Framingham, boasts a crops of twelve. The Volunteers of America, who have discontinued their sidewalk Santa line in Boston, maintain as many as fifty of the bell...
THE IDEA FOR Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil is potentially no more idiotic than those which have fueled many successful Hollywood thrillers. A nasty Nazi doctor clones 94 infants from a graft of Hitler's skin, and plants his babies all over the world, trusting that in the...
Thus while human cloning makes good cocktail-party chatter, it is not only very far off in the future, but also seems to be impractical and to present unsolvable ethical and social problems. Says Nobel Laureate James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure: "What's...