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...four, at about the same time my memory begins, baseball entered my consciousness. I would cling on to baseball throughout my childhood, even as my slate began to be inscribed with the evils of the world...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: An Open Letter to Marv Albert | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

Over time, the cost of these sets should fall considerably. Still, you won't be able to cling to your Samsung forever...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: techTALK | 4/8/1997 | See Source »

...Kingdom Level Above Human," the cult members believed their bodies were mere vessels. By renouncing sex, drugs, alcohol, their birth names and all relationships with family and friends, disciples could become ready to ascend to space, shedding their "containers," or bodies, and entering God's Kingdom. "If you cling to this life, will you not lose it?" Do asks in the Heaven's Gate manifesto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MARKER WE'VE BEEN...WAITING FOR | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...coherent world whose natural beauty can be coldly indifferent. Disease, obsolescence and bad timing threaten both man and grape. Arthur, the working stiff, confronts that fate with inconspicuous stoicism. Intellectual Anna is more expressive: "Everything on earth was frail and fleeting, destined to crumble," she reflects. "All you could cling to in the end were those loving particulars." Among them are Atwater's favorite lopping shears, which he uses to clear deadwood to make way for new growth. They are the unmistakable metaphor at the heart of this artful and compassionate novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: PRIME VINTAGE | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...their remains. We could raise the clones in structured isolation and see what they would do. If dna survives the decomposition of the human body, then we should examine the ultimate cloning possibility. Let's scrape the Shroud of Turin for whatever tiny bits of human matter may still cling to that cloth, clone the dna and find out if the Man of the Shroud was just some 14th century monk, as carbon dating apparently reveals, or if he really was the Son of God. Then perhaps we could see what Jesus Christ would do today. LARY S. LARSON Idaho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 31, 1997 | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

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