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...grew increasingly anxious. "I have come as close as I ever want to come to sacrificing myself to help you and I get silence," he complained in March 2000. "I hate silence..." Speculating darkly about his own motives, he wrote: "One might propose that I am either insanely brave or quite insane. I'd answer neither. I'd say, insanely loyal. Take your pick. There is insanity in all the answers." Though he believed he had so far "judged the edge correctly" of his own jeopardy, "it's been a long time, my dear friends, a long and lonely time...
DIED. EDDIE MATHEWS, 69, Milwaukee Braves' Hall of Fame third baseman and lefty hitter who racked up 512 home runs; of pneumonia; in San Diego. Mathews and fellow Brave Hank Aaron hit 863 home runs combined, the most of any two teammates in history...
...didn't, and when he went down in flames, Ahnold turned into Debra Winger, with plenty of help, one presumes, from a big green anesthesia spliff. "Koochaa!" he wailed. "Brave beautiful people who I have grown to love so much...I can't see Rodger...
...obvious way is to point to the broader benefits. Thus cloning proponents like to attach themselves to the whole arena of stem-cell research, the brave new world of inquiry into how the wonderfully pliable cells of seven-day-old embryos behave. Embryonic stem cells eventually turn into every kind of tissue, including brain, muscle, nerve and blood. If scientists could harness their powers, these cells could serve as the body's self-repair kit, providing cures for Parkinson's, diabetes, Alzheimer's and paralysis. Actors Christopher Reeve, paralyzed by a fall from a horse, and Michael...
...Grant, a vocational training scholarship to be awarded annually. The judges won't care which branch of the Time family the winner works for; they'll just be looking for someone with Joanna?s genuine thirst for knowledge. This, I hope, will be a fitting memorial to the extraordinarily brave young woman whom we all-Church and State alike-miss very much...