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...thoughts to the afterlife, in an endearingly meditative farce about Veronica, a depressive woman who commits suicide in the year 2000 ("At least I got to miss 9/11") and lands in a sort of limbo, where she is reincarnated as, among other things, an abused child and a dog. Veronica is played by the dimpled Kristine Nielsen, whose performance is less depressive than manic; she orates her grudges with the gale force of one of those crazy people who enters a crowded subway car and shouts her conviction that the end is nigh into the ear of the nearest standee...
...worse. He?s still insisting that two of the 17 human stem-cell lines he says he created through cloning are legitimate, but the university is looking into those as well-and sifting through his data on Snuppy, which Hwang presented last summer as the world?s first cloned dog...
...annual roundup of the best new products and technological innovations prompted readers to share their excitement about the cool things that await them in the future - maybe even as a holiday gift. Some, however, were troubled by the ethical implications of the cloned dog Snuppy I truly enjoyed your selection of the best new inventions [Nov. 28]. I liked the ENV hydrogen-powered motorcycle and the Shift tricycle, whose rear wheels move closer together at higher speeds and separate for balance at slower ones. But I was most impressed by the LifeStraw [a drinking tube with powerful filters that...
...first story in Magic for Beginners concerns an enchanted handbag. Open it one way, and you find a village that was hidden inside it long ago for safekeeping. Open it another way, and you're pulled into a dark land guarded by a dog with no skin. Link's stories are kind of like that handbag. At first blush they look like charming yarns about divorce and TV shows, but they're haunted by dark spirits and dark emotions--loss, anger and despair. They play in a place few writers go, a netherworld between literature and fantasy, Alice Munro...
...Reports of a “suspicious” suitcase led officers to the New Research Building. Upon closer inspection, it was determined that the suitcase was from the airport and did not pose a threat. 7:02 p.m.—An officer observed two dog owners attempting to separate their dueling pooches. The officer oversaw the exchange of contact information between the parties once the conflict ended. Police logs failed to mention which one of the dogs had won the fight. Dec. 14: 8:59 a.m.—Officers descended upon the Harvard Student Agencies building...