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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fittingly enough, Gates is in Ghana until November 23. Gates is currently narrating a film, Wonders of the African World, for BBC television, to be released in England in early...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ghana Honors Gates In Special Postage Stamp | 11/13/1997 | See Source »

...Keep the Aspidistra Flying. She has played Marina Oswald (the TV movie Fatal Deception), Woody Allen's selfish wife (in Mighty Aphrodite), Sister Clare to Mickey Rourke's Francis of Assisi (no, really, in the 1989 Francesco), a French-speaking fashion designer (Portraits Chinois), a bachelor-party stripper (the BBC's Dancing Queen) and a scrubwoman who lops off vital parts of her deceased loved ones--tongue, lungs, finger, penis--as a protest against mining conditions in Nova Scotia (Margaret's Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ALL HAIL TO HELENA! | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...successfully returned to China during the '90s on three occasions for investigations of the penal system. He worked with news organizations, including the BBC and "60 Minutes," before he was finally detained at China's western border with Kazakhstan in 1995 while attempting to make his fourth return trip...

Author: By Christopher T. Boyd, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dissident Harry Wu to Give Speech | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

...National Security Council spokesperson P.J. Crowley, is a group of 175 media representatives organized by the Chinese government to travel with Jiang on his visit to the U.S. It consists primarily of Chinese reporters, but also includes a number of international media representatives and reporters from Japan, the BBC...

Author: By Emily B. Wong, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Press Vies for Access to Jiang Speech | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

...make them headless? Slack tells the BBC, "Imagine reprogramming an egg in such a way that it didn't form a whole embryo but it just formed the organ you wanted, plus the heart and circulatory system." Yes, this is no mad science, but simply organ transplant research ? just as Dr. Ian Wilmut originally cloned Dolly the sheep to create a better glass of milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TUESDAY: Don't Lose Your Head | 10/21/1997 | See Source »

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