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make small farm animals, I think. I half expect to receive a pig cloned from a slice of bacon on my birthday.
My sister, Dianne, clones bacteria and studies the growth patterns and other such things microbiologists study. She can’t explain much detail to her thickheaded brother. But I do know — and have always said at the first available moment — this world can never have too much bacteria in it to suit me.
A graduate student at the University of Georgia in Athens, Dianne also works with nuclear products and their wastes — “really nasty stuff,” Dianne says in her best scientific language — which scares the beejeebers out of me.
At least they’re not pouring the stuff down the sewer drains and polluting the Athens water supply.
Like most college students, Dianne is too poor even to pay life’s dues. But she’ll earn more than anybody in the newspaper business after one week at her new job, working with dangerous chemicals and tampering with nature.
Does it bother her that she may, as a result of some bizarre chemical reaction, wake up one morning standing about 40feet tall? “Naw,” she says as if I just offered her a stick of used gum.
One day, she told me, she was
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