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...many students on this campus committed to civil liberties makes me sure that Bill of Rights is not becoming fiction," Lisman said...
...down corridors and into limousines. And this documentary by D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus becomes less a group portrait of a campaign team in action and more a character study of the candidate's designated weirdo. But that's all right; Carville is a terrific character. If this were fiction instead of cinema verite, Tommy Lee Jones would play the part...
When it finally happened -- after years of ethical hand wringing and science- fiction fantasy -- it was done in such a low-key way by researchers so quiet and self-effacing that the world nearly missed it. The landmark experiment was reported by Jerry Hall at a meeting of the American Fertility Society in Montreal three weeks ago. Afterward, colleagues came up to congratulate him and say "Nice job." Others voted to give his paper, written with his supervisor, Dr. Robert Stillman, the conference's first prize. But nobody seemed to want to pursue the one fact that made his little...
When it comes to dealing with cloning, ethicists and science-fiction writers have almost indistinguishable job descriptions. Both groups propose hypothetical situations in which cloning might happen, then examine the likely implications. The only real difference is that ethicists respect the laws of plausibility and don't waste much time on scenarios that probably won't ever come to pass. Science-fiction writers trash those same laws with creative gusto...
...song ("Weird Al" Yankovic's I Think I'm a Clone Now, sung to the tune of Tommy James and the Shondells' I Think We're Alone Now). Cloning, in fact, has been a fertile enough subject to earn its own lengthy entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction...