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...genetic defects seen in other species, it's not likely to work. The Science paper is a recipe for cloning, said Kennedy, "only in the sense that 'catch a turtle' is the recipe for turtle soup." Said Hwang: "In my humble opinion, it's not so easy to mimic our technology...
...Charlie's Angels, airing in March. Growing up in Canada, the former model had no TV, so the role required work. There was Fawcett's walk to learn and history to absorb. And then there were the physical enhancements. The hair extensions were easy. But how did Helfer mimic the other iconic parts of Fawcett's physique? "We had a range of prosthetic nipples," says Helfer. And to think Farrah made do with just...
...otherwise undiminished. His speaking voice is patrician in tone (he was once, briefly, a tutor at Eton), and he quotes fluently from the annals of military historythe British in Suez, the CIA in Iran, the Abkhazian War, obscure, half-forgotten intelligence scandalsbut he is also an almost unnervingly gifted mimic. Over the course of an afternoon, he does, among others, the author James Jones, a snooty French photographer, Truman Capote and Mel Brooks' 2,000-year...
...Irishman drinking away his exile in the Italian city of Trieste, scribbling unpublished manuscripts. Lucia took after her father: tall, pale and skinny. In Carol Loeb Shloss's Lucia Joyce (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 560 pages), she emerges as shy but clever, a bright, pretty girl and a witty mimic. Lucia became a dancer. Her work was by all accounts strange and fascinating--"totally subtle and barbaric," one critic wrote. But her promise was never fulfilled. As she grew from an adolescent to a woman, her life took a darker turn. She fell in love with a succession of men--among...
While not competing with Louie’s, Iftikhar did try to mimic the longer hours of his franchised counterparts in the square...