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...Engineers are exceptionally strong up the middle. Shortstop Ken Weisshaar is second in hitting with 318 and very steady defensively. His fielding mate, second baseman Rich Roy-an anemic batter-is being touted as the best fielding second baseman in the school's history...
Such fanciful fears tend to obscure deeper ethical and practical objections to cloning. The process could be used, for example, to allow a woman to produce a child without passing on her own or her mate's defective gene. A cell nucleus from the genetically sound parent could be substituted for the nucleus in her egg. But even that quite reasonable application could introduce a novel set of complications. Would the cloned child develop a sibling rivalry with its biological parent? Would he face a severe identity crisis, being someone else's "duplicate"? Beyond such considerations, a number of scientists...
...years ago, Mailer made a casual remark which he repeats several times throughout the essay. It would not be accepted casually today. "The prime responsibility of a woman," Norman Mailer said years ago and is still repeating, "probably is to be on earth long enough to find the best mate for herself, and conceive children who will improve the species...
...personal feud in the "A" division championship, Penn's Palmer Page beat teammate Eliot Berry. But Berry made sure Page took no honor from winning as he threw the match after falling behind and left his team-mate with an empty victory...
Director Robert Fuest is quite a comedown from original Director William Wyler, then hitting his stride. Wyler worked against the faintly ridiculous aspects of the plot. Fuest emphasizes them: the young bastard Heathcliff finds a soul mate in Cathy, who swears "I am Heath-cliff." Grown to wild manhood, he is thrust out of the ancestral digs, Wuthering Heights, by its owner Hindley. Cathy is pledged to another; Heathcliff goes abroad and returns a sudden gentleman of fortune. At the gaming table he wins most of the estate from the ruined Hindley, but too late. Cathy, doomed...