Word: apartness
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...skeptical of these assurances. Why? Because just a year or two ago, research advocates were assuring us that they only wanted to do stem-cell research on discarded embryos from fertility clinics but would not create a human embryo in the laboratory just for the purpose of taking it apart for its stem cells...
Well, that was then. Today these very same advocates are campaigning hard to permit research cloning--that is, the creation of human embryos for the purpose of taking them apart for their stem cells. They justify this reversal of position by invoking the suffering of millions. And they heap scorn on opponents for letting old promises and arbitrary moral barriers stand in the way of human betterment...
...himself up to the police. Ecleo has about 1 million followers in the Philippines, who believe he is a reincarnation of Jesus Christ. AUSTRALIA Just Another Trick of the Light In an experiment straight out of Star Trek, two Australian scientists teleported information between two laser beams a meter apart. The scientists made use of a phenomenon called quantum entanglement to dismantle a signal-transmitted in photons, or particles of light-in one shaft of laser light and instantaneously rebuild a replica of it in a second laser beam. Star Trek-style transporters that could move objects through space...
...Scotland who, just days after Pinochet and his fellow military chiefs seized power in 1973, had refused to service the engines of eight British-made Hawker Hunter fighter jets like those used to attack Chile's presidential palace. The standoff at the engine plant near Glasgow lasted five years. Apart from his discussion of Chile's covert assistance to Britain during the 1982 Falklands War with Argentina - for which Thatcher was deeply grateful to Pinochet - Beckett's focus on political symbiosis seems narrow. "You could say," he writes, "that Britain and Chile have acted as each other's political subconscious...
...already written about him for TIME.com, in That Old Feeling columns on Irving Berlin and Gene Kelly. In 1998 I wrote a TIME piece called "High and Low," about the devolution of the people's art. " Start with two fellows from Omaha, Neb., born 25 years apart. One was frail, comical-looking, yet he epitomized elegance in an era when glamour was the ability to steer a slim lady around a dance floor. The other man was bulky, brooding, with the artistic mission to break things: women's hearts, codes of behavior, the very notion of 'good acting.' In their...