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...nothing so extraordinary; some 2,000 children conceived outside the womb have been born since 1978. But this particular little girl was born to a woman who is not her mother. Last summer a woman who could not carry a child had an egg fertilized by her husband's sperm in a laboratory. The embryo was then transferred to the womb of another woman...
...criticism from the scientific community. In fact, he has used his considerable powers of persuasion to enlist a few prominent researchers in his crusade. In 1983, for example, he talked two Nobel laureates and other scientists into signing a declaration urging Congress to ban any genetic engineering of human sperm and egg cells, despite the fact that such a ban would halt research aimed at eliminating genetic diseases like sickle- cell anemia and Down's syndrome...
...loved hunting the way that Imelda loves shopping. He loved the kick of the gun and the smell of the powder. He loved the antlers. The same sportive hormones may be active in Imelda. Nature is filled with wild waste, unthinkable redundancies. Why does nature toss off a billion sperm when only one of them is necessary to fertilize a human egg? Imelda's shoes, ecologically baffling, are part of the mystery of life...
...humor. She's aware of the moral, political, and intellectual paradoxes of the "Big Science" that can provide all this amazing circuitry. She projects radar dishes, poses tough questions--"Should the unborn have civil rights?"--and takes a science lesson to absurd lengths by wondering what would happen if sperm were the size of sperm whales and decided to impregnate Japan...
Though Anderson's newer works seemed more musically oriented and less thematic than some of her earlier pieces, the entire show was beyond criticism in any relevant sense. What if sperm whales impregnated Japan...