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...ALAN SHEPARD was many things. He was a patriot, a leader, a competitor, a hero, a friend. When we seven were named America's first astronauts, Al stood out. I had first met him when we were test pilots, but not until the Mercury program did I see the determination, toughness and courage of Alan Shepard...
...failures in those early Redstone rocket tests, but that didn't deter us--especially not Al. Waiting in his capsule through yet another delay before his historic mission, we heard him bark, "Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?" That moment says more about Alan Shepard than anything else...
...even conceivable that a human with a failing liver could have a new one grown from, say, a cell taken out of his bone marrow. "This is fantasy now," admits Alan Colman, research director of PPL Therapeutics, the Scottish biotechnology firm that holds the license for the process that created Dolly. "But two years ago, so was the work that is now being presented in Nature...
WASHINGTON: After a torrid 5.5 percent growth rate in the first three months of 1998, the economy has slammed on the brakes, growing only 1.4 percent in the April-June quarter. But if it doesn't worry Alan Greenspan, it shouldn't worry you. "This is exactly what economists were hoping for: The beginnings of a soft landing," says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl. "The Asian crisis is starting to hit us, and a slowdown was inevitable. This one, especially balanced with the abnormally high first quarter...
...Mayflower, and for hundreds of years that was not a problem. What has changed to create the senseless, willful disregard of people and property? Whether we have grown dependent on drugs or handouts, individual responsibility is going the way of dinosaurs, and it's taking America with it. ALAN HILLS Los Gatos, Calif...