Word: matings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aranson hews to four grand themes: the sea. the quest, the majestic, malignant power of the white whale, and Ahab's fierce, tragic, demonic will to harpoon fate. Ahab v. the first mate Starbuck, the man of reason, forms the main line of conflict. Starbuck has signed on to hunt whales, not to pursue Ahab's monomaniacal revenge. Melville means us to know that when a man sets out to probe the secrets of the universe, he is far past reason, just as the seafaring Renaissance explorers went far past their maps...
...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...