Word: companionism
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...figured it would be a great plan--Alex would sit still for two hours, watching Carey twist his face, contort his body and lower our IQs as we watched. Instead I sat through the movie hoping to god my youthful companion wasn't figuring out what was going...
...first tiny steps toward scenarios at least as bizarre, and perhaps even more so. Writing in the current issue of Nature Medicine, the researchers report that they have frozen spermatogonial stem cells--the cells that make sperm--thawed them and coaxed them back to life. And in a companion paper in the journal Nature, the same scientists say they have taken stem cells from rats and implanted them in mice, which have then produced fully functional rat sperm...
This anxiety accompanied me for the next three years; whether I had three papers and an exam the next week or a speech for an election I was running in, that sinking feeling was my constant companion on the walks home from Lamont or the Science Center...
...what it means to be human, see if your local library or used-book store still has a copy of Vercors' You Shall Know Them, which was published back in the 1950s. If your tastes run to pulp fiction instead, either of these novels might make an adequate companion on a plane ride. If you choose Popescu, better make sure it's a long trip...
Culkin family values were on display as Macaulay Culkin, 15 and last seen onscreen in the bomb Richie Rich, was slapped by his father Kit Culkin for reportedly refusing to do homework. Pat Brentrup, Kit's estranged companion and Mac's mom, then marched in with the cops. The trio headed for family court, where a truce was patched...