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...with many works of great art, JSCUA was conceived when a website owned by the director of Airplane! gave me $2,000 for the right to computer-animate an old column of mine about going to a water-treatment facility in Orange County, California, to drink tap water filtered from sewage. NationalBanana.com intended to sell this to a cable channel, but it turns out that cable channels aren't in the business of supporting a series of avant-garde poop jokes. (See the top 10 Sundance hits of all time...
...bill's backers were promising to whack out more fat when a House-Senate conference committee meets to resolve the two versions of the bill, Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski was trying to add new deductions for car buyers, and Oklahoma right winger James Inhofe was teaming up with California left winger Barbara Boxer to throw more cash at highways...
Walter's story is based on the Hays Press--Enterprise lecture that he is giving this week at the University of California at Riverside. He sent it to TIME.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel and me for advice, and we thought it had the makings of a groundbreaking cover story. Walter is, of course, a former managing editor of TIME and now president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, with which we are collaborating this summer on a summit in Aspen that will explore the different ways each of us defines health. (For more information or to register, go to www.aspenhealthforum.org...
Fertility clinics are round-the-clock operations, with women coming and going seven days a week for estrogen-monitoring and egg retrieval. The weekend after a California woman gave birth to octuplets, traffic was steady at the Duke Fertility Center in Durham, N.C. Susannah Copland, who oversees Duke's in vitro fertilization (IVF) program, was on call and noticed that "everyone was buzzing about the octuplets." Some patients were shocked, others unnerved. "I don't want eight babies," they told her. "And we don't want you to have eight babies," she responded...
...overseen by a government agency that can revoke a doctor's license or close a clinic and sets age limits for fertility treatments. "Would we write laws limiting the size of someone's family to six?" asks Richard Paulson, director of the fertility program at the University of Southern California. "Would we write laws mandating selective reduction?" he asks, referring to the option of aborting some embryos if a high number of them successfully implant in the uterus...