They can also be made sterile, which germ-infested humans, who risk spreading disease around the solar system, cannot.Humanity, some will argue, is driven by a yearning to boldly go to places far beyond its crowded corner of the universe.
Driven by a yearning for urban revival -- and the political and commercial success it seemed to promise -- local governments have channeled hundreds of millions of dollars into the new projects.
"The Golden Notebook" suggested that humanity, male and female, is driven by a common yearning: "Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who would really understand me, who'd be kind to me," one of the characters said.
This isn't so much Mad Men as deranged husbands and wives, driven crazy by their own yearning disappointment, uncertainty and misplaced ambition.
And, yes, it is driven by the age-old Jewish yearning for enduring peace.
Essence magazine raves that Taylor is "heaven sent" and that her "graceful piano driven songs about finding, losing and yearning for love are sure to resonate with audiences of all ages".
And in "Hollow," standing under images of replicating DNA helices, she sang her own take on what drives DNA: "I yearn to be loved".
A virgin in middle age, a man of pretentious manners and a nonstop talker whose highfalutin patter drives everyone to yearn to be out of his presence, Aymer is played by Richard Crawford with an entertaining grasp of the man's irritating qualities, but he still manages to elicit our compassion for his painful loneliness.
Recent psychological theories posit that suicide is driven by intense mental pain: hopelessness, a yearning for escape, a sense of not belonging, feelings of burdensomeness.
But while the heroes remain uniformly super-rich – as well as young and beautiful – I believe that this craze is driven by fiscal as much as physical yearning.
