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...Donor Program” that offers $5,000 “plus karma credits” to females willing to donate their eggs. Such advertisements, and others that specify the desirability of Ivy League ovaries, inspired Cook’s most recent true-to-life medical thriller Shock, published in August 2001. Cook tackles the infertility industry and its unregulated gray areas—a perfect setting for intrigue, horror and probing social commentary. “There is an active kind of search for women to donate eggs,” he says. “My feeling...
Cook says his intentions in writing Shock were twofold. “I wanted to underline the fact that this monetary economy is emerging for female eggs,” he says, “and I wanted people to know something about embryonic stem cell technology and the basics of therapeutic cloning.” The book does just that, at times relishing the details of the scientific minutia so lovingly that a non-biology concentrator can become a bit confounded. But the main idea is one anyone can grasp: The egg donation process is dangerous?...
...basics of the plot, Arnone laughs out loud. “What is this, Nancy Drew?” he asks. Cook’s take on his characters is slightly different. “When you’ve written a few [books]—I think Shock is my 23rd—you begin to create your characters for the story,” he says. “What I try to do, and what I think sets my books apart from, if you will, the best-selling genre, is that the stories tend...
...agonizing four hours on cramped tippy toes craning to catch a glimpse over the heads of bystanders packed six deep. If you think that is agony though, consider the poor drag queens who walk the 3-km-long route in 15-cm stilettos. A few floats and costumes may shock?and occasionally the crowd gasps loudly?but more often they simply laugh, applaud or roar in approval. The largest cheers are reserved for gay members of the police force, who march in uniform. Twenty-four years ago, the authorities stopped the protest march. Now they are part...
...reformist message, vowing to refashion the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and change Japan. He won unprecedented support and fawning adoration from a public hungry for a new way of doing things. Everyone from economists to housewives seemed to agree that the country needed a good dose of shock therapy. Why then, does reform in Japan seem dead...