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...STENCH IN THE QUINCY DISH ROOM...
...mother of a story she told him as a child about how the local cleaning man was not born a cleaning man but was just playing the hand fate had dealt him. The Chungs' daughter, 20, a sophomore attending Yonsei University in Seoul, comes by to help her mother dish out bowls of steaming white rice to go with the hot pots. "My daughter said what we're doing is admirable," Mrs. Chung recalls. "We both cried when our children told us how proud they were." As the Chungs are discovering, the pioneer spirit can accomplish...
...doesn't quite believe it's a science. Nor does he accept the nest-of-memes view of consciousness. "To be honest, I don't even know what that means," admits Pinker. The problem, he says, is that memetics assumes the brain is essentially passive, like a Petri dish awaiting infection. It doesn't account for the self that responds subjectively, that feels sensations such as love, envy and pain. "Babies are conscious," he points out. "That's why we don't operate on them without anesthesia. And their minds have not been infected by memes...
Some memoirists have found success getting the word out on a smaller scale. When Diana Douglas Darrid approached a large publisher with a memoir of her life as an actress, she found the editors only wanted her to dish dirt about her first marriage--to actor Kirk Douglas. Darrid eventually found the right fit with Barricade Books, a small New York press that publishes theater and film biographies. Lots of specialty and regional publishers are seeking books on everything from Navy stories to tales of Kentucky history. In the fall, Rainer plans to launch First Person Press, which will...
...husband and I were blessed with our own test-tube babies--beautiful girl twins who are equally delightful but totally different. One looks just like me; the other bears little resemblance. Are they both mine? Were my eggs placed in the right drawer? In the right Petri dish? Fertilized by the right sperm? Is someone else raising one of my children? Is ignorance bliss...