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...Brave New World visions in which a totalitarian government creates whole subclasses of clones designed expressly for particular tasks. As Annas pointed out, there are better ways to create a crack Navy SEAL team or an astronaut corps than to clone the appropriate mix of sperm and egg and wait 20 years. "Maybe if this were Nazi Germany, we would worry more about the government," said Annas. "But we're in America, where we have the private market. We don't need government to make the nightmare scenario come true...
...Grace & Co., now owns the rights to cattle-cloning technology developed by Granada Biosciences, a once high-flying biotech firm that went out of business in 1992. The process calls for single cells to be separated from a growing calf embryo. Each cell is then injected into an unfertilized egg and implanted in the womb of a surrogate cow. Because the nucleus of the unfertilized egg is removed beforehand, it contains no genetic material that might interfere with the development of the embryo. In theory, then, it ought to be possible to extract a 32-cell embryo from a prize...
...devoured first and ended up being the only dish which did not wreak havoc on our gastrointestinal tracts later that night. The chicken house special is a spicy, curry-like dish, partly finger-food because of the hunks of bone-dry chicken and the single hard-boiled egg plopped in the middle. If the house special was what the critics were thinking of when they gave Asmara its award for excellence in "spicy meat dishes," those critics must have liked their spices dull. From the vegetarian section, we chose a lentil mush, which didn't taste much different from...
Weirdest food he ever made himself: At home, I like to do stuff with tofu substitutes. I made an egg-beater omelette with tofu bacon, tofu sausage and fat-free cheese for my mother on Mother's Day. She thought it was delightful...
Given recent history, that would be welcome, albeit surprising, news. In 1992, the endowment returned a disappointing 11.8 percent, lagging behind 71 percent of the nation's colleges and universities. And in 1991, Harvard's nest egg barely grew...