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...Senator John McCain perked up enormously when a page delivered a phone message. What fun, a hall pass! It would be a cheap shot, looking down from the press gallery, to comment on hair. But on a per capita basis, the Senate must contain the largest number of adult gum chewers in the country...
...WILMUT became the world's best-known embryologist in early 1997, when he and his team at Scotland's Roslin Institute announced that they had cloned a mammal, a lamb named Dolly, from the single cell of an adult sheep. But the science that produced Dolly also gave rise to disquieting questions that still rattle ethicists and policymakers. Managing editor Walter Isaacson met Wilmut at the annual Forstmann Little seminar in Aspen, Colo., last September and engaged him in a lively conversation on the ethics of cloning. "Wilmut expressed his concern that the breakthrough he had wrought would be used...
...From a telephone poll of 1,031 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN last month by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Margin of error +/- 3%. "Not sures" omitted...
...Lewinsky. That he had continued to carry on right in their home, when she was out of town, after church on Easter, once on their anniversary, with at least the complicity of co-workers, was demeaning to her; his choice of paramour, meanwhile, demeaned him. "It wasn't an adult relationship. It was a man thinking he was 14 years old," says a friend...
...that most people did not want Bill Clinton pushed out of office. And Bennett, the author of The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals, was left to shake his head at how the American people had abandoned him. "For the first time in my adult life," he said, "I'm not in sync...