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Letter: Letters : Seminal name

Published 31 January 1998

From Ron Washington

washe@rivernet.com.au

No doubt I am not the first, but here it is anyway. While watching the news,
my daughter remarked that it is odd that the man advocating human cloning is
called Dick Seed. Is it all a practical joke, or is this another example of
people’s names affecting what they do
(Feedback, 13 December)?

Issue no. 2119 published 31 January 1998

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