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WATER FOR ELEPHANTS SARA GRUEN JACOB JANKOWSKI has never had fantasies about joining the circus. But when his parents die suddenly, he freaks out, drops out of vet school, hops a freight train and winds up tending to the menagerie of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a third-rate Depression-era traveling circus. What goes on under the big top is nothing compared with the show backstage. In a sawdust-and-tinsel novel reminiscent of Robertson Davies, Jacob nurses giraffes, bunks with a surly dwarf, falls in love with a sexy horsewoman, gets life lessons from...
...critics, such arguments seem like moral fig leaves. They view cc as an ethical dry run for human cloning, and they're troubled by how the rehearsal is going. "Once cloning is on its own as a commercial enterprise, there really is no oversight," says Lori Gruen, a Wesleyan University ethics professor who generally supports cloning research. Could a culture that can't agree on the morality of using human embryos to create stem cells tolerate a technology in which 86 human embryos have to die to create an 87th? "Why do it?" asks Pacelle. "It seems...
...successful audition for the American Dance Machine, a company Dance Magazine’s John Gruen has proclaimed as being “dance-historic, far reaching, and visionary,” marked the beginning of his dance career...