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...like slime mold under a microscope. They execute their robberies, and their victims, with soulless professionalism; their gangster grimaces register starkness without sexiness. Brad Jr. and his pals are hardly more exemplary. Talking tough, swigging beer, waiting for something bad to happen, they could be the Whitewood Gang in embryo...
...lovely '80s twist on meeting cute. Blane's snooty friend Steff (James Spader) could be a tired stereotype, but with his all-year tan, his hip-blase voice and his view of high school as a "career," Steff becomes a recognizable character of any age: upscale slime in embryo...
...experiment was proposed by Purdue University Sophomore John Vellinger, a winner of NASA's 1983 national space competition. He hypothesized that an embryo would develop better in space than on earth because it would not be influenced by gravity. Chicken eggs were chosen because the incubation period is just 21 days. The eggs will remain in a container in the shuttle for six days and then hatch within 13 days after touchdown...
Along with Rick Redfern and Joanie Caucus, little Timmy, a twelve-minute-old embryo, is a character in a recent Doonesbury comic series. The sequence, entitled Silent Scream II: The Prequel, pokes fun at the recent antiabortion documentary Silent Scream. But readers of the 835 newspapers in which Garry Trudeau's comic strip appears will never meet little Timmy. Last week Trudeau withdrew the six strips after discussions with his distributor, Universal Press Syndicate. "We thought the sequence was done well," said Lee Salem, editorial director of Universal. "But we finally decided that the whole question of abortion...
...panel, Trudeau's narrator introduces Timmy, a tiny dot on the television screen. "While his main preoccupation at this point is cell division," the narrator says of the embryo, "in most respects he's as human as you and I." When he later calls abortions "nothing less than a holocaust," the next panel shows a voice from the White House saying, "Gosh, there's that word again." The strips will appear in the New Republic's June 10 issue. This is the first time since he became a syndicated cartoonist in 1970 that Trudeau has withdrawn his work...