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...phoned Gina Kolata, the reporter at the New York Times who broke the story. As a result, Caplan helped shape the discussion that followed. For example, although Hall's technique cannot produce more than two or three clones of any embryo, several stories written about his experiment included the scenario, put forward by Caplan and other ethicists, in which an infertility clinic offers prospective parents a catalog filled with children's photographs. Below each picture is a report on the child's academic and social achievement. Couples could choose from among the pictures, receive a frozen embryo, and then raise...
Instead of providing fixed voucher amounts to parents, a more equitable and cost-effective plan might have introduced a graduated voucher system. The parents of a child enrolled at a private school could receive vouchers which varied according to the school's tuition. One possible scenario would be as follows: For every dollar that the private school tuition exceeded the voucher, a dollar would be deducted from the amount of the voucher paid to the parents of the enrolled student...
...more moving aspects of the production is a recurrent scenario where all four actresses appear as children playing in a wasteland. As the plot develops, the games they invent provide a painful reflection on the relationships between the adult characters. The children representing Jackie and her illegitimate daughter Rosie, for example, become blood sisters. Yet Rosie's comment "You can never lie to me now" has already been disproven by Jackie's inability throughout the play to reveal herself as her mother...
...scenario, based on a real story, seems full of dramatic potential. In 1964, Rene Gallimard (Jeremy Irons), a French diplomat stationed in Beijing, starts a long-term affair with Song Liling (John Lone), an opera singer who enchants him with Eastern modesty and feminine mystery. Several years later Gallimard learns he's been had, so to speak: Song was a spy for the Chinese government...
...stage, this scenario apparently provided a dramatic way to explore issues of imperialism and sex stereotyping. A stylized stage production does seem more appropriate to this tale, since it would allow you to forget the rather peculiar clinical details of the story...