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Some biologists believe that humanity begins at conception because the fertilized egg cell contains human DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). Manhattan Lawyer Cyril Means Jr., among others, finds this line of reasoning unconvincing: each sperm and egg also contain DNA, yet hardly anyone would argue, even metaphysically, that spermatozoa and ova possess the value of human beings...
...seven months, he found the poem growing into a play. He started scrounging materials for a stage set and recruiting prisoners as actors. He and 18 other inmates were finally allowed to put on the play. "Most guys came to ridicule us," says Brown. "If we had laid an egg, it would have meant a lot of embarrassment, because there's no place to hide in a prison...
...Seasons Nursing Centers of America Inc. By owning part of a fast-growing proprietor of homes for the ailing aged, they could profit from a healthy young industry -or so the tout went. For a while, anyone who bought that advice had the prospect of a very comfortable nest egg indeed. Offered at $11 a share in 1968, Four Seasons soared to $181 (counting for a split). Then, a spectacular fizzle. The price shriveled to as low as 6¼? before the company was finally suspended from trading on the American Stock Exchange in September 1970. Last week the Justice...
...uneven scenes are sometimes sheer cardboard, sometimes compelling. Easy complaints about slickness, commerce and sentimentality, though, do not do justice to the great affection and knowledge that Crichton shows. His description of a starved, out-of-work miner treating himself to one golden, fabulously self-indulgent, perfectly boiled egg would splinter a heart...
...unlikely kind of football town. Who thinks of apple-cheeked American youth playing a fast game of touch on Jackie Gleason Drive or Arthur Godfrey Road? Who would expect hoarse cries of "Dee-fense! Dee-fense!" from a bathing-suit salesman dressed in a robin's-egg blue sports jacket and ocher slacks...