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Today such artificially assisted pregnancies are commonplace (an estimated 300,000 have taken place in the past 20 years) and are only one of many options available to would-be parents--from using frozen embryos and surrogate mothers to picking the number, sex and genes of their babies. These innovations have freed women from the tyranny of their biological clock, triggered an explosion of multiple births, even made the sex act irrelevant in conception--all the while setting the stage for still more unsettling spectacles to come, such as human cloning...
...Wilmut did it. From a single mammary cell, taken from an adult ewe, he and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute cloned a sheep called Dolly and introduced her to a skeptical world in February...
...Discontents (1930), noting that the human animal, with its insatiable needs, must always remain an enemy to organized society, which exists largely to tamp down sexual and aggressive desires. At best, civilized living is a compromise between wishes and repression--not a comfortable doctrine. It ensures that Freud, taken straight, will never become truly popular, even if today we all speak Freud...
...Ludwig's brother Paul, a concert pianist who lost an arm in World War I, commissioned works for the left hand by Richard Strauss, Ravel and Prokofiev. It was during the war that Ludwig, a volunteer in the Austrian artillery, completed the Tractatus shortly before he was captured and taken prisoner. Always an ascetic, he gave away his inheritance, relying on the generosity of his Cambridge champions, Russell and John Maynard Keynes, to secure academic employment for him, living frugally and in later life being cared for by his disciples...
...wrong. This was not some breakthrough in carbuncle research but hot news that couldn't wait one more minute. Within the brotherhood of researchers, however, Salk had sinned unforgivably by not saluting either Enders or, more seriously, his colleagues at the Pittsburgh lab. Everything he did after that was taken as showboating--when he opened the Salk Institute, a superlab in La Jolla, Calif., for the world's scientists to retreat to and bask in, and even when not long before his death in 1995, he started a search for an AIDS vaccine, to a flourish of trumpets and welcome...