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...including crimes against humanity (genocide). It may offend the members of the Government Department that some of their colleagues might be accused of war crimes; however. the question will not disappear in the face of out-raged manifestoes. As Professor Moise has recently observed, perhaps it is time to abandon the atmosphere of a gentlemen's club which pervades the Faculty, time to take the gloves off, even at the cost of personal friendship...
This fear affects others besides friends, Stephens has discovered. He points out that doctors, unable to face the tragedy, will sometimes stop visiting an incurably ill child, and that nurses may try not to become emotionally involved. Clergymen frequently abandon bereaved mothers and fathers as soon as the funeral is over. Even close relatives, trying to be helpful, often remove every trace of the dead child-his books, clothes and toys and games-and encourage parents to forget at a time when their real need is "to work through their grief by talking incessantly and by remembering...
...SHOOT-We Are Your Children! Its title threatens to give the book away. Its Random House imprint and overlarge type lend weight to the suspicion. So the temptation is simply to abandon the volume, to file it away on the already overcrowded shelf of revolutionary beiles-lettres, to condemn it to be read only by confused, embattled parents in fruitless attempts to discern some sort of message from across the barricades...
...such group-Crazy Chris's Crew-pursued their mission with reckless abandon...
...eventually be able to abandon sexual reproduction entirely. That startling and perhaps unwelcome possibility has been demonstrated by Dr. J.B. Gurdon of Britain's Oxford University. Taking an unfertilized egg cell from an African clawed frog, Gurdon destroyed its nucleus by ultraviolet radiation, replacing it with the nucleus of an intestinal cell from a tadpole of the same species. The egg, discovering that it had a full set of chromosomes, instead of the half set found in unfertilized eggs, responded by beginning to divide as if it had been normally fertilized. The result was a tadpole that was the genetic...