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Somatic cell nuclear transfer differs from IVF in that it lacks the normal fertilization process of egg and sperm—the egg’s nucleus is removed and replaced with another cell’s genetic material...
...person does not participate in pivoting sports and is relatively inactive,” the site reads, “the knee can feel quite normal without...
...country to destroy and deface too much of the past for Crumb's taste: "There is a big wonderful future tomorrow full of monumental achievements!...Everyone will be tuned into everything that's happening all the time! No one will be left out. We will all be normal!" Crumb's family was anything but normal. His father was a "sadistic bully," his mother an amphetamine addict. In 1962, aged 18, their talented, self-taught son was taken on by a greetings-card company. Five years later he left his steady job to join the hippies in San Francisco...
...gruesome sacrifice that will be expected of them. ("After all, it's what we're supposed to be doing, isn't it?" says Ruth.) Cut off from the world, the children become pathetically obsessed with anything that might give them a tiny taste of what life is like for normal people. Ruth's most deeply held fantasy is to work in an office...
...stay home on a Friday night just because you prefer a good book to a loud party, you're not necessarily shy--not unless the prospect of the party makes you so anxious that what you're really doing is avoiding it. "Shyness is a greater than normal tension or uncertainty when we're with strangers," says psychologist Jerome Kagan of Harvard University. "Shy people are more likely to be introverts, but introverts...