Clone of silence; how did replicating humans mutate from sci-fi nightmare to sentimental dream?

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Genetic Savings and Clone offers to store a pet's DNA and clone it when the original pet dies. This is perhaps an indication of the social acceptance of the idea of cloning.

Author: Talbot, Margaret
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2000
Services, Appreciation, Cloning, Genetic Savings and Clone, Pets

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The devil in the nursery: her surreal trial for Satanic abuse revealed America's anxieties about leaving its children with strangers

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Peggy McMartin Buckey was one of the defendants in a famous child abuse trial in the 1980s. Buckey was accused of ritual abuse in a case that lasted seven years and cost California taxpayers $15 million. She was acquitted in 1990. Social reasons for the charges are described.

Author: Talbot, Margaret
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
Cases, Child abuse, Child care workers, Buckey, Peggy McMartin

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What my son wants to know

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A longtime Washington, D.C. journalist cannot bring herself to explain the attack on the Pentagon to her 5-year-old kindergartener, especially the fact that innocent families, and not just terrorists, perished in the four airliners.

Author: Talbot, Margaret
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
Psychological aspects, Personal narratives, Cover Story, War and society, Society, Wars, Public opinion, Air travel, Mother and child, Mother-child relations, Terrorism, World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001

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