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...suffering from advanced prostate cancer, Ballard finds the answers that matter in his children and grandchildren - his Miracles of Life. But there are miracles of fiction here, too. So convincing was the story he made of the horrors of Lunghua that when Ballard finally returned there in 1991, it was as if he had "walked up to a mirage, accepted that in its way it was real, and then walked straight through it to the other side." Ballard's own journey from inner to outer space turned out to be no distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.G. Ballard: The Emperor of Shepperton | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...donning their usual uniforms of crimson and white, the 24-member team sported jerseys in crimson’s rosy cousin: pink. This unusual flourish was part of the “Pink at the Rink” program, a campaign to raise money for the fight against breast cancer. Twelve women’s hockey teams in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) wore customized pink jerseys as part of the joint effort between the conference and the American Cancer Society. The jerseys were auctioned online to raise money for the society, with prices beginning...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women’s Hockey Team Pretty in Pink | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

Each new adult-stem-cell breakthrough makes the research easier by offering scientists more options, but advances in genetics make the issue of reproduction harder. Couples can screen out embryos for cystic fibrosis and cancer risk. Should they also be allowed to screen for blond, for smart, for straight or gay? We are on a road toward reproduction that doesn't require eggs and sperm at all. This is a moral wilderness, full of hope and traps. I don't expect aspiring parents to bring order to it when all they want is to survive the journey and make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanted: Someone to Play God | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...Portland Junior Pirates of the Atlantic Junior Hockey League were in the stands at Saturday night’s game...The Crimson coaches wore pink ties at this weekend’s game to support the Pink at the Rink campaign launched by ECAC Hockey and Coaches Vs. Cancer...Harvard has taken the lead in the first period in each of its last five games...

Author: By Courtney D. Skinner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Richter, Defense Power Win | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...least some slowing of the sexual revolution seems traceable to the reassertion of traditional values by women. As always, women have more to lose in casual sex than men: they are left with the unwanted pregnancies, the abortions, the possible damage from contraceptives and the risk of cervical cancer associated with having multiple sex partners. To many women, random sex seems more and more a pointless diversion or a trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revolution Is Over | 2/18/2008 | See Source »

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