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...future. Boisselier also has a pet-cloning service called Clonapet, which she says has also received great interest. "The media only want to talk about possible birth defects, that the baby will be a monster, but the e-mails I get from people tell us we're brave, that we should go ahead," says Boisselier...
They travel down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon for 35 days, brave tempestuous rapids and make communal decisions. They also usually wear no clothes. They share the ideals of the ’60s, though Moss filmed it in the late...
...brave new element, of course, was the $300 billion elimination of the tax on corporate dividends. This one, the White House says, is for the stock market and the old folks, and also, Bush stressed, because "double taxation is wrong." (The application of morality to fiscal policy is a relatively recent entry into the field of economics, but Bush seems to have a pretty steady moral compass for this sort of thing.) There was some other stuff, too: help for the jobless through unemployment-benefits extensions and funding state "re-employment" accounts, and some small-business breaks those folks have...
Even weirder were our public debates. Last year we were arguing about cloning and stem-cell research. This year we pretended to argue about things we agreed upon long ago. The Times used its new front-page editorial section to lead our country into a brave fight over whether women should be allowed to join golf clubs. This is a decision that was last grappled with by Darren from Bewitched--the first Darren. It's a little late to take a stand on this when we've already got women reporters in the male golf-club locker room. Trent Lott...
DIED. DEE BROWN, 94, brave historian whose 1970 chronicle Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee swept away the conventional belief in the "Indian savage" and the "noble white settler"; in Little Rock, Ark. The white librarian upended the movie mythology of the Old West and documented the Indian Wars of 1860-90 as less Hollywood than holocaust. The 1890 slaughter of 300 Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek, S.D., turned the grounds into a shrine and the site of a 71-day protest in 1973 that ended in the deaths of two more Indians...