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...tell you a story. In 1991, the Minnesota North Stars finished with the 16th-best record in what was then a 21-team National Hockey League. Come playoff-time, the Stars snuck past one, two, three opponents, and Holy Cow, all of the sudden they were in the Stanley Cup Finals against Pittsburgh...
...eastern coast. Regional interests and power bases are strong; there are massive disparities of income, and a decreasing willingness to contribute a requisite flow of taxes to the center in Beijing, since that center is often seen as both corrupt and ineffective. Periodic assertions of central police power can cow citizens recurrently but not remove deep-seated centers of unrest. At the same time, ebullient economic growth in many regions and sectors of the economy fuels a certain optimism, an optimism bolstered at the present by the incredible windfall of Hong Kong, which will return to Chinese-mainland control...
...says one result could be a mad scramble as companies vied for the patent to replicate the best cow or athlete extant...
...form of Dolly, an embraceable ewe with an incredible past: She was an exact genetic copy of another lamb. News of the first-ever cloning of a mammal sent stock in the small Scottish biotech company responsible soaring as investors drooled (whole herds of the same prizewinning cow!) over the possibilities. More cautious types pointed out that this procedure could presumably, uh, be used to make copies of humans, which opens up an extremely large ethical can of worms. Ian Wilmut, one of the scientists involved in the project, said it would be unethical to even try. "There...
...city of Washington may be the epitome of political sophistication, but the capital has never quite shed its reputation as a cultural cow town. The opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1971 was supposed to change that. It gave the city an imposing performance space to rival New York City's best and the hope that greater visibility would soon follow. But bricks and mortar can do only so much. The Kennedy Center, which houses an opera house, a concert hall and theaters, did score some coups, including a dazzling visit by the Berlin...