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Saturday morning, Clonaid, a company founded by a religious group called Raelians, announced the birth of a second "cloned" baby, this time in Europe. The news comes just days after the sect's first claim of a successful clone, and has sparked worldwide skepticism - and intense curiosity: who are the Raelians and what do they believe? TIME's Anne Berryman spoke to Raelian Damien Marsic, a Frenchman now living...
Friends say Rowley was the top marksman in her class. And she wanted to set the two-mile running record for women. During her first days at Quantico, Rowley heard that a woman can run it faster when she isn't on the pill. So she stopped taking birth control--and quickly became pregnant. She kept the news to herself for three months, even when she had to throw herself on the ground, belly first, from a dead run during weapons training. She didn't set the record then. "I was worried about pushing too hard because I was pregnant...
...American imperative: Johnny, unite us! Every Sunday afternoon from 1956 to 1972, Johnny U. laced up his black cleats to mid-calf, put his helmet on over his signature flattop (so square you could balance a playbook on it) and gathered the city of Baltimore to watch the birth of modern football. While the rest of the National Football League was scrumming its way forward a few yards at a time, Unitas threw precise, elegant passes that proved how beautiful the game could be. Unitas' greatest triumph was marching the Colts to a sudden-death victory over the New York...
...modern times, at least partly because he was as much a politician in Arabia as the "founder" of a religion that now has more than 1 billion adherents. With frequent use of the words of Karen Armstrong, Muhammad's biographer, the film tells the story of his life--his birth in Mecca, his rise to prominence as an honest man and a successful merchant, his loving marriage to Khadija--leading up to the moment when, while he was meditating in the hills above Mecca, an angel instructed him to "recite." That was the pivot of Muhammad's life, the event...
...longtime bassist for Louis Armstrong who said his job was a mission ordained by God; of a heart attack; in Roosevelt, N.Y. Armstrong, on a stint in Shaw's native St. Louis, Mo., in 1945, needed someone to fill in for his regular bassist, whose wife had just given birth. Shaw took the gig, which lasted 25 years...