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...behold, a kindly geneticist notices Kinney's plight and decides to help him--by cloning him. Uh huh. But the more cartoonish this movie gets--a coffee pot bubbles among the complicated looking test-tubes involved in the cloning process--the better it becomes. As Doug, and Doug, and Doug, and Doug try to solve all of the original's problems, they find that the logistics of their parallel existences cause more difficulties than they can handle...
...surfing? Emphatically not. Researchers suspect that another four or five dopamine-related genes also contribute. Moreover, behavior ultimately depends as much on upbringing and opportunity as it does on innate temperament. Someone with the thrill-seeking gene might turn out to be a serial murderer, observes behavioral geneticist Irving Gottesman of the University of Virginia. "Under a different scenario and in a different environment," he says, "that person could become a hero in Bosnia...
...Holsteins are trapped in their profession, which is declining anyway, and someday a brilliant geneticist will engineer an enzyme that can be thrown into a tank of silage to produce a nonfat miracle milk that makes people younger, and the Holstein breed will face a bleak future, perhaps as a game animal for the slower hunter. A sad fate for a virtuous creature who lets down her milk twice a day and never is a problem to anybody...
...Never has any identifiable inheritance pattern--certainly not a straightforward, classical (Mendelian) one--been documented for any disorder or behavioral trait, including manic-depressive illness (MDI); every much-ballyhooed claim for "genetic markers" of MDI has been quietly retracted as a result of further unbiased scientific study. A renowned geneticist, Harvard's Evan Balaban, terms "behavioral genetics" research a "hierarchy of worthlessness...
...tall, with fair hair, a thin mustache and glasses. Then the bomber vanished for more than six years, leading some authorities to speculate that he may have been in prison or a psychiatric facility. In June 1993 he re- emerged when a bomb injured Charles Epstein, a geneticist at the University of California at San Francisco. Two days later, Yale computer scientist David Gelernter was seriously wounded in the blast from a package sent to his New Haven office. The same day as the Yale attack, the New York Times received a letter that predicted both bombings, saying...