Word: cloning
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FEBRUARY 1989 Diane Sawyer hired away from CBS by ABC, with promise of a news show, Prime Time Live. Walters expresses "concern" that PTL will be a clone of her magazine show, 20/20...
...Katie, my daughter, overrides the "I'm in a virtual meeting" message on my video visor. She's ticked. Sam, her clone, has been teasing...
...found a real German shepherd frozen in a solid block in a large freezer next to a bouquet of roses and some dog food. Obara would later say he had preserved it with the hope that, one day, science would enable him to "reanimate my loving pet into a clone dog." Strange as it was, the dog fits a pattern Obara had of hoarding personal detritus. There were stacks of old car batteries, trashed TV sets, receipts, journals and personal tape recordings dating back to the 1970s. The biggest haul comprised more than 200 videotapes showing dozens of apparently unconscious...
Speaking of Memory Sticks, that's the storage format the Sony Clie ($499) uses--not surprising, since Sony invented it. The Clie PEG-N710C (great name!) is an upgrade of last year's feeble foray into the Palm clone market. There are two remarkable things about it. The first is its brilliant color screen, which makes the Palm m505's look putrid. The second is the built-in music player. This is the first Palm clone to feature a headphone jack and the ability to play MP3s--no simple trick, since the 33 MHz processor that powers these PDAs...
...lawyer's warning is echoed by the few people in Shenzhen who worry about the underdeveloped conscience of a hurried Hong Kong clone. He Qinglian, a 47-year-old Shenzhen economic researcher and journalist, wrote a pamphlet in March last year that detailed state corruption. For that public service she has been banned from publishing and is watched day and night by police, but is unfazed, saying Shenzhen provides the perfect "window" for her research. "Rich people are getting richer and the poor poorer," she says. "The poor have no rights and are forced into crime, killing, stealing and hijacking...