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...surgeon, Seed grew up in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, where he was, by his own description, the most unpopular student in his high school. Why? "The same reason I'm unpopular here," he says. "I was loquacious, overly intelligent, well educated. I knew too much about too many things, and that angered other people." Seed graduated cum laude from Harvard and received a Ph.D. in physics in 1953. Soon, though, his interests shifted, and he began exploring the new frontier of biomedicine. In the 1970s Seed co-founded a company that commercialized a technique for transferring embryos...
...uterus of the egg donor--and was soon eclipsed by in-vitro fertilization. Ultimately the venture failed. Indeed, Seed in recent years appears to have suffered some financial reversals. Until last summer he and his third wife Gloria lived in a two-story Victorian house in Oak Park. But the bank foreclosed on their $341,000 mortgage, and they were forced to move to a modest bungalow in nearby Riverside. "I had a beautiful house," sighs Seed. "It's very difficult to make money but extremely easy to lose it. I lost a couple of million dollars...
People who know Seed have strong reactions to him, positive and negative. The Rev. Thomas Cross, Seed's pastor at the First United Methodist Church in Oak Park, believes his interest in cloning is an extension of his Christian charity. "He's committed to human well-being," Cross says. "He's doing this out of compassion...
...Mary J. Blige Share My World (MCA). The woman known as "the queen of hip-hop soul" proves with her most confident, sustained work why she wears the crown. The tracks on this CD are gems: expertly cut, with sparkling vocals. Blige's voice, with its oak-dark shadings and unforced, round-the-way sexiness, keeps it all real...
...town of Roby is a strangely idyllic place for a siege. Nevertheless, as acres of corn and soybean have been undulating in the fall breeze, and as birch, maple and oak have been turning their autumnal colors, Shirley Allen, 51, has been facing down the law for the past month. On Sept. 22, Christian County sheriff's deputies knocked on the door of her two-bedroom farmhouse to serve her with a court order for psychiatric evaluation. She met them with a 12-gauge bolt-action shotgun. They backed off and set up the siege...