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...count more for its cautionary value than for its medical importance. Better to put the scientific community and the public on notice that the question of cross-species infections needs serious attention and debate. Otherwise, no one will be prepared when the real breakthrough comes and a transplanted animal organ takes up permanent residence in a human being...
Oliver Parker's Othello is the more standard of the two, a solid reading that pulls out the stops on an easily played organ. This is, after all, a soap opera of the had-I-but-known variety. All the Moor has to do is ask his wife's servant, "Pray, did thee swipe fair Desdemona's hankie?" and the misunderstanding is resolved as smoothly as any episode of Home Improvement. But then there would be little allurement in the role for some of this century's most dominant actors...
...Australian redback spider. The spiders too have turned copulation into a girl-eats-boy story. In this case, though, the male not only lets himself be devoured; he also performs acrobatics to make it happen. As soon as the male has put what is delicately known as his intromittent organ into his much larger mate, he turns a somersault--without slipping out--and dangles his juicy abdomen right in front of her mouth. Who could resist? Not the female, who usually begins chomping away...
...believe [the relationships] cause conflicts of interest and I worry seriously about these things, particularly if there is money involved," says Jerome Gross, an emeritus professor at the Medical School who sits on the scientific advisory board of Organogenesis, Inc., a biotech firm which manufactures organ replacements for transplantation...
...dedicated; each is required to speak on a do-good theme--a "platform" that will serve as her stump speech should she win the crown. This week's wannabes will plump for such causes as aging with dignity (Miss Hawaii), youth-violence intervention (Maine), alternatives to underage drinking (Nebraska), organ-tissue donation (Texas) and motivating at-risk children through music (Alabama). Miss California will speak in favor of sexual abstinence...