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...stands in for the missing organ of perception, the eye," he said. "The dog has become the means by which this human perceives the world--and conversely in this story the dog also seems to have acquired a kind of human consciousness. It is like the dog has become part human and the human has become part animal...
...everything clicked," John remembers. "For the first time things made sense, and I understood who and what I was." With the support of a new set of doctors, Joan underwent a pair of operations to reconstruct a penis--albeit a diminutive one without the sensitivity of a normal sex organ...
...writes. "Far below, the life of the city surged through the streets like the blood of a great snarling beast, unimpeded by his concerns. He was just one more fool in its hard history who'd gotten in over his head." Good magenta stuff, requiring only a little Hammond-organ ominoso to sound like the musings of Guy Noir, Garrison Keillor's private eye, who works "on the 12th floor of the Acme Building, in a city that knows how to keep its secrets...
More palatable than the ego clone to some bioethicists is the medical clone, a baby created to provide transplant material for the original. Nobody advocates harvesting a one-of-a-kind organ like a heart from the new child--an act that would amount to creating the clone just to kill it. But it's hard to argue against the idea of a family's loving a child so much that it will happily raise another, identical child so that one of its kidneys or a bit of its marrow might allow the first to live. "The reasons for opposing...
Cultural Rhythms is not the only event sponsored by the Foundation, the University organ created in 1981 to promote race relations on campus and to fund student ethnic and cultural groups...