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Coming as it did amid the recent cloning furor, the report of Balaban's experiments published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences created yet more public concern about biological tinkering, not to mention a fresh wave of stale chicken jokes. (Why did the mad scientist kick the chickens out of his lab? Because they were using fowl language.) Raising the specter of brain transplants in humans, radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh blustered, "This is more dangerous than cloning...
DIED. CHARLES DEDERICH, 83, power-mad founder of the drug-rehabilitation program Synanon; in Visalia, California. Synanon, which combined spartan communal living and aggressive group therapy, was widely acclaimed in the 1960s but eventually disbanded in the wake of increasingly bizarre behavior by Dederich, who proclaimed his organization a religion and was convicted of conspiring to commit murder by placing a rattlesnake in an opponent's mailbox...
...have to be mad to be tantalized. Being human will do. Think of it: what Dolly--fat, insensible Dolly--promises is not quite a second chance at life (you don't reproduce yourself; you just reproduce a twin) but another soul's chance at your life. Every parent tries to endow his child with the wisdom of his own hard-earned experience. Here is the opportunity to pour all the accumulated learning of your life back into a new you, to raise your exact biological double, to guide your very flesh through a second existence...
...would be everything the originals were. Innate genius isn't always so innate, after all, coming to nothing if the person born with the potential for excellence doesn't find the right environment and blossom in it. A scientific genius who's beaten as a child might become a mad genius. An artist who's introduced to alcohol when he's young might merely become a drunk. A thousand track switches have to click in sequence for the child who starts out toward greatness to wind up there. If a single one clicks wrong, the high-speed rush toward...
...staff is less so. Only two of Arsenio's seven writers are African American. "I hire writers based on their material," the star says. "My thing is black, white, male, female, I don't know. What I know is, I gotta win. I know that black people will be mad at me if there are not enough blacks working for me, and they'll be mad...