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...still others, who accept in vitro fertilization, aren't convinced that ACT's technique does not harm the embryo. The procedure, which is based on pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, a test commonly done when couples at IVF clinics are concerned about passing on genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis and Duchenne muscular dystrophy, is supposed to spare the embryo after a single cell is removed. But since the test has only been used widely since the 1990s, it's not absolutely clear that taking one cell out of the embryo has no effect on normal development of the implanted embryos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Stem Cell Advance May Not Be a Breakthrough | 8/24/2006 | See Source »

...interview with TIME.com Tuesday night, Paula Wagner, Cruise's partner, said that days before Paramount's move, the two producers had already decided to leave the studio, accept an offer of a $100 million-a-year revolving fund from a group of private investors and produce their future film projects independently. (Under terms of its "first-look" deal with Paramount that recently expired, Cruise/Wagner was paid an annual chunk of money to cover overhead and development costs - a sum estimated by sources at the studio to be around $10 million, although Wagner insists it was much less than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Loses in the Split — Paramount or Cruise? | 8/23/2006 | See Source »

...sell wi-fi access and tickets - for everything from airline seats to events. And machine-dispensed downloads of music videos and TV shows is also a future possibility. Since teenagers will make up a big part of the market, the Coke machines' main payment method is cash (though they accept credit cards). Vodafone's kiosks, however, also accept chip-and-pin debit cards, which is crucial given the handsets retail for a bit more than pocket change, between $55 to $150. Vodafone's goal is simple: it makes no money from selling phones, but from the voice and data traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vendor Benders | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

...easy bringing any of the proposed prevention techniques into widespread use - microbicides may run into cultural barriers and won't be useful at all unless women use them and their partners accept them, while preventive drugs may exponentially increase the risk that drug resistant HIV strains will blossom. But it's important that new prevention options become part of future plans to control HIV-AIDS. As this conference has expanded over the years and become as much about the spectacle as about the science, many AIDS researchers have stopped attending. Yes, the scope of the meeting and the now predictable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conference Summary | 8/18/2006 | See Source »

...Political correctness of any sort is not how to go about airport security, on passengers or screeners, and I think people can accept that if it means being safer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Airport Screener's Complaint | 8/17/2006 | See Source »

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