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This was 1989--before "Twin Peaks," "Northern Exposure" and Nirvana made Seattle hip. In 1989 fellow Harvardians were still asking me if I'd ever seen a polar bear. My friends saw Seattle as either incredibly provinicial or incredibly exotic--about the only thing anyone knew about the city was that it rained all the time...
...thawed and raised with tissues that are guaranteed to be 100% compatible. Or what if the couple just feels like having a third child that is more like their daughter than their son? By thawing out the corresponding embryo they could have a second daughter who would be a twin of the first, only several years younger. A couple for whom money was no object could give birth to the same child every few years. A woman could even give birth to her own twin, provided her parents had the foresight to preserve a clone of the embryo that produced...
...Virgin Planet (1959). Conversely, cloning might be a device for preserving love. The 1991 British TV miniseries The Cloning of Joanna May, based on a Fay Weldon novel, is about a man who dumps his unfaithful wife -- but only after cloning her so he can replace her with her twin a few years down the line...
...small, but telling, act of civil disobedience. Last Sunday, the Harvard University Police Association paid several hundred dollars to rent a twin engine plane to fly over the Head of the Charles regatta. The plane carried a sign: "Support Harvard Police for a Fair Contract...
This was particularly true for Angela Delichatsios. Delichatsios's character is insane, the victim of a broken home, a mad mother, and a suicidal twin brother who had also been her lover. To be fair, her lines are among the most melodramatic and self-conscious in the play. She has the farthest stretch to make in constructing a core of believability around her character. However, her attempts to build a character who is simultaneously out of touch with reality but also accessible to the audience's experiences break down quickly. Delichatsios pulls at her pajama-like clothing to indicate nervousness...