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Anne Hatley is a sharp-witted and acerbic young teacher from the South, in need of a reprieve from the drudgery of work and an increasingly tedious relationship. She accepts an invitation to the nation's largest research colony, where scientists-DNA...
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Anne Hatley is a sharp-witted and acerbic young teacher from the South, in need of a reprieve from the drudgery of work and an increasingly tedious relationship. She accepts an invitation to the nation's largest research colony, where scientists-DNA pioneer James D. Watson among them-hope to "cure" Anne of a rare gene that affects her bone growth: She is missing a leg and walks with a prosthesis. Anne feels fine the way she is, and she strives to maintain her resolve under pressure from her peers and from doctors eager to pioneer an experimental procedure, which would make her the first patien
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First Impressions; Check-In; Ceremony in Honor of James D. Watson; Modern Science (Some Things I Know about It); Goal of Cold Spring Colony; Goal ofSprings That Are Cold; Nick's Place; Ways That NickMight Kill Himself; Calling Durham; The Bricklayer, the Mortar,and Love; How Good Are Youat Phone Sex?; First Visitfrom Charles Darwin; We Found the Secret of Life; Interview with the Geneticist; The Agreement; The New York Times Respondsto the Declaration of Independence; The Young and the Old; The Red Button; Bonding with Mercedes; Prelude to the Movies; The Movies; Getting ChartedWeek Four
CraniosThe Cave of Common Origins; The Common Origin of Caves; Field Trip; Drinking at Sandy's Bar; Protection Timeline; The Art of Persuasion; With Darwin at the Races; The Dream Director; Press Release; The Liminal State; He Sings Country in the Morning; Origins of the First Fake Leg; Origins of the Leg SittingThere on the Chair; Two Strands Wrappedaround Each Other; Fright; Sex in the Sleeping Pod; Checking the Mail; Breaking Point; To the Geneticist; The Proposal; In the Prehistoric Timeof Regeneration; After the Dinosaursand Before Engel Deeter; Badass Dreams; Birth Story
Reasons for Birth DefectsMercedes Wants to Have Nick's Babies; The Robertson Davies Tragedy; Happy Birthday; Onward to the Mermaids; The Biggest Consensual HumanExperiment of All Time; Fate of the Dugong; The Hitchhiker; Surprise; Emergency Planfor When You Need to Make LoveWithout Being There; "Open the Door I WalkedEight Hundred Miles to Say I'm Sorrybut You're No Daisy Yourself"; The Old High Way of Love; Appointment; A New Kind of Rays; The Stone and the Watch; Calling Around; Grayson's Response; If Cars Could Talk to Each Other; The Renaissance; The Bible; Headlines
Reporting from the ColonyEliot's Mice; Chorus; The Regenerator; Statement; Common Object Theory; Comparison of Legs; Do People Ever Change?; Paths of the Mirror; Attempt; Dig Season; Appointments; Mercedes InterviewsPeter Singer for the Cold SpringHarbor Channel; Assembly with Peter Singer; What Makes a Human a Human; Are We Going to the Dance Party?; Dance Party with Wine; The Search; What We Fix:American Plastic SurgeryProcedural Statistics; Company
The Case for Mice, as Demonstrated byMercedes' Disappearance, and a Mouse HasNever Risen into the Sky, and if a MouseDid, It Would be Less of a CrimeMemorial; Conversation in the Dark; With Darwin at Applebee's; Waiting on the Legand Reading the Files; Genetic Counseling; Interview; Going-Away Present; Practice; Going Public; Appendix I; Appendix II; Appendix III; Notes; Acknowledgments;
