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First they scooped a mass of embryonic cells from the womb of a pregnant gray mouse. Using microscopes and a micropipette much finer than a human hair, they sucked out the cells' nuclei and, one by one, transplanted each into a recently fertilized egg extracted from another mouse. That mouse was black and functioned as a kind of genetic control...
...sperm nuclei that were already in the black mouse's egg so that their genetic information could not influence the resulting clone. Next they cultured the cell in a solution of nutrients until it divided and grew into an early embryo, which was then inserted into the womb of a third mouse, this one white. The white mouse gave birth to a gray mouse, genetically identical to the original embryo...
...camp his wife (Jill Townsend) goes into labor-two months early. A mysteriously difficult birth ensues. No one needs a translation of the hieroglyphics in the burial place to know what is happening-the soul of the royal personage is reversing the usual journey, moving from tomb to womb...
...bright light into their bedroom, leaving it on until the morning. After a week, Alekos can stand it no longer and runs outside to confront them. When she tries to stop him, he fights her, and in the battle hits her in the stomach, killing the child in her womb. Realizing what he has done, for the first time Alekos cries out for forgiveness, saying that he has had enough suffering. She remembers "that mad monologue, sweet, wondrous, heart-rending, as the blows of the knife increased in number and intensity and remorse for not having told you before...
...should be able to Whistly it." In his speech, Moriarty covers a wide pitch range, and repeatedly resorts actually to singing his lines, at one point using falsetto to ascend to soprano F. Near the end he takes one line, "Why love forswore me in my mother's womb" (borrowed from the third Henry VI play and sings it over and over as a musical refrain...