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FERTILE MIND AND A SILKEN THUMB A gardener markets her artificial flower power
A gurgling stream cascades through lavish tropical undergrowth. Orchids twine among ferns; palm fronds weave a dense canopy. But those palms bend a trifle too symmetrically, and there is something mechanical about the way a monarch butterfly flutters its wings. In fact, "it's all an illusion," says Linda Lewis...
Job followed job, and by 1989 Lewis was on her way to Las Vegas, where she hoped to decorate the burgeoning casinos. Shortly after she arrived, the Mirage hired her to create the jungle. By that time she had begun using artificial plants because they were easier to work with...
No wonder. Doctors have been trying for centuries to improve on nature's way of perpetuating the human species. The first successful artificial insemination took place during the presidency of George Washington. And since 1978, when the world's first test-tube baby was born, researchers have assembled a battery...
Substitute frozen eggs for embryos, however, and these problems go away. No one considers an unfertilized egg to be a human being (though the Catholic Church officially opposes IVF, as it does nearly all assisted-reproduction procedures, including artificial insemination). Moreover, there is no controversy about whom the egg belongs...