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Steve approaches an unmarked door and begins typing his secret code on the keypad. He enters the lobby and is greeted by an older woman seated behind a desk. She silently motions for Steve to put his hands inside a biometric scanner. From that point on, she will only refer...
The aged Garnett desperately tries to save the disappearing American Chestnut tree, crossing and re-crossing genes. Lusa, a newly widowed outsider, buries her grief in the insect world, stripping the complexities of human emotion down to the single filaments on the wing of a moth. And Deanna, a lean...
“I was getting help with biology for my midterm,” Wimberley writes in an e-mail, “I ‘got permission’ from my superior running mate to go. Alas. Genes. They confuse me.”
Next may or may not be prescient, but it's definitely bad. It's about--to pick a few examples from its ashtray of half-finished plots--a man who gets treated for cancer and survives, only to find that unscrupulous doctors have patented his family's cancer-resistant cell...
There's clearly an evolutionary advantage to this natural timorousness. If we're mindful of real dangers and flee when they arise, we're more likely to live long enough to pass on our genes. But evolutionary rewards also come to those who stand and fight, those willing to take...