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...Imagine for a moment that your daughter needs a bone-marrow transplant and no one can provide a match; that your wife's early menopause has made her infertile; or that your five-year-old has drowned in a lake and your grief has made it impossible to get your mind around the fact that he is gone forever. Would the news then really be so easy to dismiss that around the world, there are scientists in labs pressing ahead with plans to duplicate a human being, deploying the same technology that allowed Scottish scientists to clone Dolly the sheep...
...restore consumer confidence, the E.U. has adopted a series of draconian measures. Among the requirements: all untested cattle older than 30 months must be purchased and destroyed; high-risk materials like brains, spinal matter and tonsils must be eliminated from the food chain; and animal feed containing meat and bone meal, widely suspected of spreading the infection, must be banned and existing stocks destroyed...
...major setback to Napster, last week the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco sided with the industry on just that point. It ruled that Napster must stop helping its users exchange unauthorized, copyrighted material. The court did throw Napster a bone: it put the burden for identifying particular copyrighted material on the music labels and other aggrieved copyright owners...
...seems that most Napster purveyors are the amoral type, those who do not really think about the moral consequences of duplicating copyrighted material and just want to soak in the bone-rattling bass and adequate mechanized drumming of the latest Top 20 hit. But the harder-core users of Napster, the real "music lovers," those who know the difference between the Waters (Roger and Muddy), are faced with a moral dilemma. These die-harders are forced to realize that their file-sharing has decreased the demand for their pet artists, and is financially hurting those they love. This smaller, more...
...Mulligan stepped down the opening sentence of Ulysses, Gregor Samsa woke up a cockroach, and nothing was the same anymore. The dream logic of surrealism, the theater of the absurd, the shock edits of the French New Wave all followed. Soon you could have an ape-man throw a bone in the air and--blink--it's an orbiting spaceship...