Word: frankenstein
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...frightfully difficult issue and it's not at all aided by researchers who are creating human embryos in the lab solely for the purpose of harvesting their stem cells. This has a Dr. Frankenstein aspect that threatens much of the hard-won good will scientists may have gleaned from supporters who remain a bit squeamish about using discarded embryos from infertility treatments...
...what's next? Well, traipsing seductively across the bedroom is a long way off. Current walking robots are more lurching Frankenstein monsters than slinking femme fatales. "Muscle is currently impossible to mimic," says Ronald Fearing, electrical engineering and robotics professor at Berkeley who is working on an automated fly. "Giving it artificial intelligence isn't much of a problem, but giving it human grace is a long way off." So while Stacy may be a real doll, you'll never mistake her for a real woman...
...student complaints were ever recorded about the 6'5" monstrosity that wandered the campus between 1947 and 1951. Frederick H. Gwynne `51 had yet to undergo the three-hour make-up process that would transform him into Frankenstein's close cousin for the 1960s television show "The Munsters...
...Every shoot day, a reported three-hour makeup procedure would be required to make Gwynne into the Frankenstein character he played...
Where is Mary Shelley when we need her? Please, somebody, let the cloning of humans be only the stuff of a gothic novel--today's tale of Frankenstein's monster--instead of the unspeakably true horror story you published. DONALD T. SANDERS Madison, Conn...