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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into a "mostly serious" fundamentalist humor magazine. Rife preprofessionalism, proto-professionalism and postprofessionalism have sent Harvard's aspiring humorists packing off to Lamont, Baker and Langdell for the execution of life's harsh sentence: NO MORE FUNNY BUSINESS, KIDS. There are only 100 jokes left on the planet Earth, produced and sustained in a Harvard p-3 laboratory with a secret fluid extracted from the funny bone of Mark O'Donnell [before he did that silly piece in New Times]. An underground group of renegade "funny" students--all of whom remember the good old days of Padan Aram, The University...
...discern from the production notes, the main plot-line consists of a mad grab by three Human Cliches (or were they Human Puns?)--a Harvard student, a Man/Woman from Outer Space, and a Diabolical Villain with Madison Avenue Experience--for the right to be the last person cloned on Earth, and cloned with a vengeance at that--1000 times, hence the title. A "big push" for conventional sex, which either has been--or is about to be--completely supplanted by the more efficient, and presumably less sloppy, process of cloning (or by appearing in Hasty Pudding productions), provides a convenient...
...recent study of ocean currents and nitrous oxide levels in different areas of the Pacific Ocean indicates that aqueous nitrous oxide may be coming primarily from one side of the earth, McElroy said...
Through the greenhouse effect nitrous oxide, acting in the same fashion as carbon dioxide, traps heat within the earth's atmosphere. A rise in the nitrous oxide level could inevitably make the earth warmer, McElroy said...
...humans, using 10 per cent of the land area of the earth, and fertilizing it, represent a very big influence," he added, citing the high amounts of nitrous oxide that fertilizer production releases into...