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...easy answer is "a new team." But that is little more than a cop-out; the fickleness of the current crop of Harvard students is astounding even still...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Section 12: Chapter 11 | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...apparatus--including the tainted National Institute to Combat Drugs, headed by General Gutierrez--and start fresh with an independent new agency modeled on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Under the plan, the DEA, the FBI and even the CIA would be invited to help train and screen a new crop of better-paid Mexican drug fighters. "We guarantee this new agency will be bulletproof when it comes to corruption," says a high-ranking Mexican official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPT BUT CERTIFIED | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...other invertebrates can practice asexual reproduction, why can't it be extended to the rest of the animal kingdom? In the 1980s, developmental biologists at what is now Allegheny University of the Health Sciences came tantalizingly close. From the red blood cells of an adult frog, they raised a crop of lively tadpoles. These tadpoles were impressive creatures, remembers University of Minnesota cell biologist Robert McKinnell, who followed the work closely. "They swam and ate and developed beautiful eyes and hind limbs," he says. But then, halfway through metamorphosis, they died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AGE OF CLONING | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

Swain says the Core Office has a policy of not firing graduate students who have been hired, though she says the situation does not crop up often because of the conservative projections...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Pondering Pre-registration | 2/28/1997 | See Source »

...doll we've made, but there has been a lot of interest." Each Kiss member will retail for about $7.99. Hasbro's General Eisenhower, as befits his station, will be a little pricier, at $49.99. And if you prefer your dolls-in-uniform to come equipped with a riding crop, Hasbro also makes a General Patton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 24, 1997 | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

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