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Some escapees cannot function in the outside world but are desperate to try. One wheelchair case, angered that his family would not remove him from his nursing home, broke out and was found dead in the Chicago River. But many are streetsmart, eluding police for long stretches, sometimes cadging up to six meals a day at various social agencies...
...sluggish, difficult labors, which may have something to do with their distended and enlarged placentas. Some of Wilmut's cloned sheep were born with incomplete body walls, with muscles and skin around their abdomen that failed to properly join. Other scientists have reported abnormalities in kidney and brain function. In still other clones, the heart does not develop normally, and the walls that are supposed to separate fresh blood from deoxygenated blood do not form...
...London, Self unravels the route connecting revealed religion, the mutability of language and the crisis in masculinity in The Book of Dave. "Here we are in an era where monotheistic fundamentalists of all stripes are claiming a literal truth for their scriptures. Whereas in fact these texts are a function of state formation and their content is kind of irrelevant to the uses made of them ? I wanted to imagine how a religion founded on any old nonsense could come to be." And why Dave's nonsense? "Well, I've always been intrigued by the Knowledge. But you also have...
...identification helps kids stake out personality turf inside the home, but it has another, far more important function: pushing some sibs away from risky behavior. On the whole, siblings pass on dangerous habits to one another in a depressingly predictable way. A girl with an older, pregnant teenage sister is four to six times as likely to become a teen mom herself, says Patricia East, a developmental psychologist at the University of California, San Diego. The same pattern holds for substance abuse. According to a paper published in the Journal of Drug Issues earlier this year, younger siblings whose older...
...government services allow parents to avoid learning it. But it is devastating when children are forced to be the family's interpreters. Try having to miss class because you have to interpret for your mother at her gynecologist's. Let's be practical and make it really hard to function in our society without knowing the language. Marcia Del Mar Calabasas, California...