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...Zenit as if it had defended Mother Russia against foreign aggression. In the same week, a second opportunity to whip up national hysteria came when Russia defeated Canada to win ice hockey's World Championship for the first time since 1993. And Putin continues to pour funds into his pet project of holding the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Russian Black Sea resort Sochi...
...their "new" friend, Ms. Redgrave, was the star of his play.) Rudin tries to translate the profound emotions from that play into language the children can comprehend, comparing the main character's grief at the death of her husband to the pain children feel at the death of a pet. "Nothing is done at random," says Andes. "All our guest have significant ties to each other. We make connections...
...employment of cloning deviates further and further from strictly utilitarian purposes, the absence of definitive international regulations means that the only limits on cloning are technological capacity and consumer demand. In this environment, even benign pet-owner sentimentality can proceed unchecked to extreme ends, as in the aforementioned cases of the cat and terrier...
What is more, a decision to clone driven by grief inverts the inherent emotional rationale behind it. A pet is cherished, as humans cherish their own family members, with the knowledge that it will die some day. In other words, these emotional relationships are based on an appreciation of the ephemeral. But as soon as pets can be replaced as easily as worn running shoes or golf clubs, this is lost...
Further, what does a pet owner call the clone of their original pet? At the very least, one hopes that owners will not make the same mistake twice and call their poor cloned dog Booger, after the original. Emily C. Ingram ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Eliot house...