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...Police investigated a 911 hang-up call from William James Hall. The call was unfounded...
Anyway, the cool kids hang out by the open bar in the lobby. The really cool kids, I figured, would be in the bathroom getting high and beating up Army Archerd. Hollywood is just like high school...
...course, there will be teething troubles--literally. Or somebody might have forgotten to cut out the songbird's voice genes, so the first struth chirps like a sparrow. Or maybe the brain development did not quite hang together and the creature is born incapable of normal movement. As this suggests, the first such experiment will almost certainly produce a bit of a Frankenstein's monster, and the whole idea may well therefore be cruel and unethical, in which case, let us hope it never happens. But that is not the same as saying it will be impossible...
Either fate looks like curtains for life. If the end comes in fire, the Big Crunch would melt down everything, even subatomic particles. If, on the other hand, the universe winds up cold and dark, life might hang on for a long time--say, by extracting gravitational energy from black holes. But trying to make a living once everything has subsided to pretty much the same temperature--a tad above absolute zero--is like trying to run a water mill on a dead-still pond...
...would this super performance be good for the suddenly superbody? Hang too much muscle on the skeletal system or place too much strain on the cardiopulmonary system, and something's bound to give. Racehorses--which are bred and trained for speeds they were not designed to run--suffer all manner of physical ills, from fractured legs to bleeding lungs, as a result of overuse. "You don't have these problems in antelopes and cheetahs, but in horses, we've apparently pushed to the limit," says Weyand. "If a human ran a 2-min. mile, you might see the same thing...