Word: hawaiian
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Today the new creation involved in cloning is no doubt visionary (Frankenstein goes partners with Henry Ford in the mass production of life) and also plunges forth into mystery, though of a different sort from that approached by astronauts. Think of the 50 Hawaiian mice and then extrapolate, taking your metaphysics as far as your imagination will carry you. What, exactly, are the implications of unsouled reduplication...
...years ago, as my parents were moving into a retirement home, we found Alexander's adoption papers, handwritten in elegant script and signed by two Hawaiians, Kailiino and Kekua, first names only, as was the Hawaiian practice at the time. While on vacation that spring in Maui, I took the papers into the Lahaina Restoration Foundation in hopes of learning more. "Too bad the name is Jardin and not Farden," said the museum director. He showed me a book, Sweet Voices of Lahaina: The Life Story of Maui's Fabulous Fardens, by Mary C. Richards. "The Fardens are well-known...
...were. Alexander, the "adopted" child Christoph brought with him to the mainland, was in fact his son, born to a handsome Hawaiian woman named Kailiino. Alexander's younger brother Charles, who had been too young to make the Pacific crossing, stayed behind with his mother. Charles Farden grew up to be a successful sugar-plantation overseer and had 13 children of his own. He tried once to find his brother on a trip to New York, but he failed...
Oldest candidates for delisting or downlisting: bald eagle, gray wolf, Aleutian Canada goose, Columbian white-tailed deer, Hawaiian hawk and Pahrump poolfish, all listed since March...
When we finally re-entered the building, Bob Marley was still playing in the background and the food was still looking good. By the end of the night I had concluded happily that the success of the luau was a testament to Hawaiian culture itself and I found myself holding onto warm ties I had made that evening, only regretting the frosty March climate outside...