Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angeles sees nearly twice as many twisters as Oklahoma City, traditionally regarded as Tornado Central! Once, 100 million mice descended on Taft, Calif. (pop. 5,000)! In 1995 L.A. became "the nation's capital of racial (539 crimes) and sexual orientation (338 crimes) violence"! And the recent rout of fires, riots and earthquakes should, by statistical rights, only increase. Furiously researched and slashingly argued, this book is a 30-bell alarm by L.A. obsessive Davis (City of Quartz), who contends that most of the "acts of God" that have wrought such destruction in that city are, in fact, the results...
...rats desert a sinking ship, mice teem over this one. There are mouse ears on the walls, lamps and smokestacks. A life-size Mickey strolls the decks, waving a cheery hi. Minnie is also aboard, flirting shamelessly; if she spoke, she would be saying, "Hello, sailor!" A huge Goofy adorns the stern. And when the Magic leaves port, the ship's horn blasts seven ominous notes: "When...you...wish...up...on...a...star...
...news of the death of astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space, arrived at the same time last week as a report that scientists in Hawaii have cloned 50 mice...
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...
...cloners also send the animals before us. First, last year, came the single sheep Dolly. Now the 50 mice. First the individual, then the horde. Charles Lindbergh crossed dangerous virgin atmosphere to get over the Atlantic to Paris in 1927; that same air is now dense with flying auditoriums of people...