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After much trauma in Wicker Park, the cast of MTV’s “The Real World” finally moved out on Friday, but a lot of them will be sticking around for a festive gathering at the Dragon Room on the 16th, so they’re not really getting out of Chicago for another...
...fault in her husband's eyes was that she could not deliver him a son?or even a daughter. So he threw her out and got himself a new wife. Alone and abandoned, Devika is trying to scrape by. "I can barely afford vegetables," she says, gesturing to her wicker basket of nuts and the few customers standing nearby eating them. "But what else can I do? Some days I eat peanuts for supper...
...Randolfe Wicker, 63, runs a lighting shop in New York City. But in his spare time, as spokesman for the Human Cloning Foundation, he is the face of cloning fervor in the U.S. "I took one step in this adventure, and it took over me like quicksand," says Wicker. He is planning to have some of his skin cells stored for future cloning. "If I'm not cloned before I die, my estate will be set up so that I can be cloned after," he says, admitting, however, that he hasn't found a lawyer willing to help...
...Wicker has long been frustrated that he cannot readily have children of his own; as he gets older, his desire to reproduce grows stronger. He knows that a clone would not be a photocopy of him but talks about the traits the boy might possess: "He will like the color blue, Middle Eastern food and romantic Spanish music that's out of fashion." And then he hints at the heart of his motive. "I can thumb my nose at Mr. Death and say, 'You might get me, but you're not going to get all of me,'" he says...
...Wicker has long been frustrated that he cannot readily have children of his own; as he gets older, his desire to reproduce grows stronger. He knows that a clone would not be a photocopy of him but talks about the traits the boy might possess: "He will like the color blue, Middle Eastern food and romantic Spanish music that's out of fashion." And then he hints at the heart of his motive. "I can thumb my nose at Mr. Death and say, 'You might get me, but you're not going to get all of me,'" he says...