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...truth universally acknowledged that a slim figure, successful career and dashing boyfriend must be in want of a modern-day singleton...
...however, parlay that ancient history into a modern-day phobia. It may be our distant ancestors who predispose us to phobias, but it's our immediate ancestors--specifically our parents--who seal the deal. As many as 40% of all people suffering from a specific phobia have at least one phobic parent, seemingly a clue that phobias could be genetically influenced. In recent years, a number of scientists have claimed to have found the phobia gene, but none of those claims have held up to scrutiny. If phobias are genetically based at all, they almost certainly require a whole tangle...
...playing their own songs and instruments, and even if it's well past the point of relevance, it has a certain wistful sweetness. Indeed, there's a fundamental decency, wit and charm in evidence throughout this collection that so completely transcends the Monkees' prefab origins, and those of their modern-day counterparts - New Kids on the Block, anyone? - that it's a pleasure to be able to recognize them as their own men. They deserve...
...Antinori, Ben Abraham and Zavos are modern-day rebels, even in the sometimes eccentric field of cloning. Antinori is also part of a team that says it will create its first human clone in 2002. Zavos, quoted above, is a well-known fixture in the world of cloning research; he and Antinori have long advocated human cloning as "the logical next step" in reproductive science, insisting the practice will provide new hope for couples who have been unable to have children. Friday, Antinori was particularly voluble when asked to defend the pending project against ethical and scientific concerns...
...what do you get for your pittance? The cool-down procedure reads like the recipe for creating a modern-day mummy. At the news that the end is near, folks from the Cryonics Institute (CI) rush to the scene and await the inevitable, as undergoing the freezing process while still alive is illegal. When you are pronounced "dead," the cool-down immediately begins with application of ice to your head and body. At this point the powerful anticoagulent heparin is injected to prevent massive blood clots from making you even deader. Then your clammy corpse is transported...