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...amazing grace . . . That saved a wretch like me" originated as a song of thanks for his deliverance from the sinfulness of slavetrading. Another former slave dealer, James Stanfield, composed an epic of several hundred lines entitled "The Guinea Voyage" (1789), in part of which he depicted the birth of a baby in the wretched squalor of the slave decks. (Art and life were not so distinct: the black poet Ignatius Sancho, who later became a figure in literary London, was born aboard a slave ship en route from Africa to the Spanish West Indies in 1729.) In 1805 the Irish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poets Against Slavery in the 1600's and 1700's | 2/18/2003 | See Source »

Raelian sect claims the birth of the first cloned human baby, named Eve, but offers no proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chain Of Events | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...DIED. DOLLY, 6, the world's first cloned mammal, of a lung infection; in Edinburgh. The birth of Dolly the sheep in 1996 was a scientific breakthrough, but it raised concerns about the ethics of cloning?and about the health of the clones. Australia's first cloned sheep, Matilda, has also died, though it seemed to be in good health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

With Singapore's birth rate plummeting faster than its employment numbers, the city-state's government is trying to find new ways to get its citizens in the sack. But despite a state-sponsored speed-dating program, surveys show that Singaporeans still have less sex than almost anyone else in the world. The birth rate is languishing at 1.4 children per woman, well below the 2.1 required for a population to replace itself. That's where the Love Boat comes in. The brainchild of self-styled sex guru Dr. Wei Siang Yu, the "Love Boat" package offers couples a boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love, Exciting and New | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

Jordan: It mostly has to do with the state of the dairy industry. They separate cows from their calves right after birth, and you can hear the mothers and calves crying for each other…It’s a very invasive industry that forces cows to be constantly pregnant...

Author: By Ishani Ganguli and Maria S. Pedroza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Blind Leading the Blind | 2/13/2003 | See Source »

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