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...psychological engineering is more remote than the futurologists would have you believe. Though musical talent may be partly heritable, there is probably no single gene for musical talent that ambitious parents can have implanted into their unborn children. It might take hundreds or thousands of the right genes, with a different combination needed for each child...
...inform is not to “intimidate.” And there are worse things than guilt. Bravo to HRL for so poignantly humanizing the unborn. Perhaps that is what Cohen actually finds so offensive...
...worst religious riots the nation had seen for a decade. In the days and weeks that followed, Hindus armed with swords and barbed tridents rampaged through Gujarat. As Modi's police force stood by, they torched Muslim shops, raped Muslim women, beheaded and disemboweled Muslim men, even cut an unborn child from the womb of one Muslim mother. According to human-rights groups, Hindus killed more than 2,000 Muslims and forced tens of thousands more to flee their homes. Now, back in Godhra where it all began almost 10 months ago, the 52-year-old Modi is well aware...
...strip malls and on street-corners around the country. They owe their popularity to improvements in the software used to create ultrasound images. Mothers willing to give $150 and 30 minutes of their time to Fetal Fotos walk away with a framed, 3-D snapshot of their unborn babies so clear that facial features--and often gender--are discernible. Most outlets also offer video footage of the fetus set to music. "They can see a little footprint," says Pierce, "or their baby kicking--things the physician just didn't have time to show them. It provides them with an additional...
...contracting HIV from a casual sexual encounter. Filled with guilt, he deserts his family, avoids telling his mistress, Komal (who is carrying his child), and is ostracized by the community. When Komal later learns what has happened, she kills herself out of shame and fear that she and her unborn baby may also be infected. But this being Bollywood, despite the tragedies set in motion by Sanjay's "one moment" of weakness, the story concludes with all remaining parties reconciled. Ballagan herself couldn't have wished for a happier ending...