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...puzzle is a transparent orb consisting of three spheres and six colored balls that must be maneuvered into color-coded domes. Does it stand up against the original? When you watch the TIME video, you'll be able to judge for yourself...
...screen for? Whole cells can already be harvested from embryos, and free-floating embryonic cells can be extracted from the womb throughout a pregnancy. Both procedures would, in theory, allow embryos to be discarded or pregnancies to be terminated for a matter as trivial as height or eye color. But both also allow parents and doctors to decide against bringing to term a baby that would enter the world with a grave and degenerative disease. The ethical conundrum lies in drawing the line. Plenty of parents abort babies found to be carrying the genetic signature of Down syndrome. Other parents...
Asian communities throughout the world will mark the Lunar New Year beginning Jan. 26 with festivities that include plenty of food, firecrackers (to chase away evil spirits), red paper lanterns (red being a bright color that portends a sunny future) and dragon and lion dances for good luck. (In the dances, a group of performers holds up a model of the animal's head and a long train symbolizing its body and moves sinuously as a way to demonstrate power and dignity - no lions or dragons are harmed.) Such traditions are rooted in an astrological system that dates back...
...work for a magazine, and my e-mail password changes every 30 seconds. Where are the biometrics? Likewise Grisham thinks we need to be told that cubicles are nicknamed "cubes," and requests our amazement at the fact that the copiers in the law firm are "state-of-the-art color and capable of instant scanning, collating, even stapling." Copiers that staple! What a time to be alive...
...urged the audience to, essentially, chill out. "If we keep seeing science and cooking as two Martians coming at each other with test tubes, we all lose," he argued. "We have to normalize the relationship between them." A few hours later, as Elena Arzak demonstrated sauces that change color on the plate, and Dani García used liquid nitrogen to create a life-like tomato out of pureed vegetables, a handful of chefs continued to do just that...