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...Adam readjusts his personality to suit whichever character is the object of his pursuit and seduction. He pops up mysteriously wherever the Owens siblings are. Each Owens knows that Adam is hiding something, but none of them can quite figure out what it is. And it certainly does not deter any one of them from falling into his clutches. But the refreshing twist of About Adam is that by the end, no one cares enough to figure out what Adam's secrets are. Each character appreciates the way in which he enriches them, and the conventional standards for romance...
...although the policemen are in their CPD uniforms, they are McCarthy's employees for the evening. They do what they are paid to do--keep the peace and, according to Rafferty, deter minors from attempting to enter by their presence. Rafferty says McCarthy does not expect them to double-check IDs, and student regulars say the officers never...
...comes out the good causes fund, we'll give it straight back to charity," says Branson. "This is just to deter us from getting our costs back." Branson-who doesn't think the public associates Virgin with his lottery fight-says it's a matter of principle. He actually came within a whisker of getting the business last year and believes he was misled into spending more money to maintain a bid he should have won on the merits. So why did Branson lose the lottery? "It's rather awkward for me to say why," says Branson, coyly. "Ring...
...That does not seem to deter the scientists who work on the Clonaid project run by the Raelian sect. They say they are willing to try to clone a dead child. Though their outfit is easy to mock, they may be even further along than the competition, in part because they have an advantage over other teams. A formidable obstacle to human cloning is that donor eggs are a rare commodity, as are potential surrogate mothers, and the Raelians claim to have a supply of both...
That does not seem to deter the scientists who work on the Clonaid project run by the Raelian sect. They say they are willing to try to clone a dead child. Though their outfit is easy to mock, they may be even further along than the competition, in part because they have an advantage over other teams. A formidable obstacle to human cloning is that donor eggs are a rare commodity, as are potential surrogate mothers, and the Raelians claim to have a supply of both...