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Every week, the Boston Phoenix runs an ad from the “Egg Donor Program” that offers $5,000 “plus karma credits” to females willing to donate their eggs. Such advertisements, and others that specify the desirability of Ivy League ovaries, inspired Cook’s most recent true-to-life medical thriller Shock, published in August 2001. Cook tackles the infertility industry and its unregulated gray areas—a perfect setting for intrigue, horror and probing social commentary. “There is an active kind of search for women...
...teacher whose vehicle is the mass-market paperback and he shares his opinion throughout the 370-page novel. The plot revolves around two Harvard graduate students (one getting a Masters degree in economics, the other in Biology) who respond to a Crimson ad seeking young, attractive Ivy League egg donors...
Spanish or Swedish? Empanadas or egg rolls? No, it's not dining out--it's cooking in, and that chef wielding the spatula may well be your 10-year-old. In increasing numbers, kids are in the kitchen--and not just to open the refrigerator and sigh that there's nothing to eat. They are poring over cookbooks, preparing the family meal and signing up for cooking classes...
...endangered species have been far behind? Meet Noah the gaur, the first endangered clone. The gaur is a species of wild ox that is fast disappearing from its native India and Burma. Noah started out as a skin cell on an adult gaur that was fused with an empty egg from an ordinary cow and then brought to term by another cow named Bessie. Scientists hope that similar operations will someday be a practical way to keep endangered species alive. Too late for Noah, however. He died from an infection two days after he was born...
...strongly support Hume’s greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely a problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...