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...called my friends' parents. It sounded glamorous and slightly sinful to my 10-year-old ears. When I walked over to my friends' houses in the evenings, they all had the same smell. It wasn't until college - no joke - that I figured out it was the smell of distant Scotch. Back then I thought it was some kind of cleaning agent that professional house-cleaners must use because we didn't have a maid and they all did. And their houses all smelled the same...
Green, meanwhile, is scheduled to be arraigned next month in Kentucky--home to Fort Campbell, where he was most recently stationed--and could end up facing the death penalty. Close relatives won't talk about him. Even distant ones are reluctant. In tiny Denver City, Texas, where he spent a couple of years with his mother's ex-husband and which he claimed as his hometown on Army paperwork, Green's former stepgrandfather thought back about the meals they had shared. "He always seemed a little bit different," B.J. Carr said, before his wife interrupted, "We don't know that...
...parents I am a mere puppy. That is no great comfort to me, however, nor, I imagine, is it much comfort to any rising senior who feels a bit overwhelmed by the ever-closer Real World. Yet it is not a simple number that makes me feel distant from the young oarsmen of the Boston Rowing Club; the rowers are almost all 18 and 19, which is, arithmetically, quite close...
...much of anything. Nonetheless, my responsibilities differentiate me from the athletes in a way that I had not previously experienced: my position in the motor boat called a “launch,” while often as little as 10 feet away, feels quite a tad more distant...
...ordinary lamb. She was cloned from a single mammary cell of an adult ewe, overturning long-held scientific dogma that had declared such a thing biologically impossible. Her birth set off a race in laboratories around the world to duplicate the breakthrough. It also raised the specter--however distant--of human cloning...