Word: jellyfish
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...gallery carved by the elements? So he and his entourage roam, from the black-and-white chessboard flats of Amadror?"I had no idea Nature could be so kitsch"?to the stone steeples of the Tin Ghergoh range, searching for fading ocher smears of mountain goats and jellyfish. Much of the art has been damaged, some by Islamic fundamentalists on a Taliban-like crusade to chisel the world into compliance with their interpretation of religious law. But most of the embellishments are by tourists. "Loulou," one writes. Most scrawl dates. A German tells Keenan he likes "the way in which...
...LICE Thought to be tiny jellyfish larvae, they'll sneak into your Speedo and leave hundreds of itchy bites. They're back at southeastern and western Florida beaches after a 20-year hiatus...
...this veritable robot zoo, no company is more active than Tiger Electronics. The manufacturer, based in Chicago, is releasing about two dozen robotic toys this year. At its Toy Fair showroom, motorized sea turtles and jellyfish glide through bubbling fish tanks. Miniature mice shake when they're lonely and squeal when they're hungry. A 3-ft.-long Interactive Raptor (still in prototype) is so lifelike, it flinches when you pull its tail...
Recently, after a monkey named ANDi was born carrying jellyfish genes, George Will predicted that genetic engineering would "end the human story" in a manner more swift and certain than nuclear war. Will's fear was not that genetic monsters or superviruses would destroy us, but that the genetic design of humans--the choice, before conception, to give a child certain traits--would eliminate our respect for human life. Will's concern, and that of many who agree with him, is not only that the consequences of genetic engineering may be harmful, but that the practice itself is a moral...
...human nucleus into a cow egg. The resulting embryo, destroyed early, appeared to be producing human protein, but we have no idea what kind of grotesque hybrid entity would come out of such a marriage. Last October, the first primate containing genes from another species--a monkey with a jellyfish gene--was born. Monkeys today. Tomorrow humans...