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...escaped the notice of opportunistic entrepreneurs. One company is offering celebrities a chance to copyright their genes, so no one will be able to clone them while they're not looking. "Michael Jordan's sweaty towel and Madonna's sunglasses contain traces of their DNA," says Andre Crump of the DNA Copyright Institute, based in San Francisco. "It could be used to create an unauthorized clone." For $1,500, Crump will provide celebs with a (c) on their genes. Of course, a symbol isn't necessary to prove that anyone's DNA is unique. Maybe that's why no celebs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patently Absurd | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...Super-comper turned super-ed now turns super-exec. This girl's blood runs Crimson. From the Candyland games of her early days to more mature forays into the world of archives and admissions, Vicky's led a crump-free existence. And although she's recently tried to revamp herself as a vixen, her sweet giggle will always belie those naughty pics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Future | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...Baghdad from U.S. warships and submarines in the Persian Gulf and perhaps from giant B-52 bombers lumbering in from their Indian Ocean base on Diego Garcia. The cruise missiles will come crashing through the windows and walls of Iraq's main military command-and-communications centers. Over the crump and flame of those explosions will sound the roar of low-flying F-117 stealth attack planes as they swoop undetected over air-defense centers--the computer-filled offices that direct missile fire against airborne attackers--drilling their targets with 2,000-lb. laser-guided bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How The Attack On Iraq Is Planned | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...enough to admit it will acknowledge the value of Commerce in his success. In the final analysis, the average consumer doesn't care who wins, Apple or Microsoft, Jobs or Gates. All we want is a product that gets the job done quickly, efficiently and not too expensively. ROBERT CRUMP JR. New Orleans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 8, 1997 | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...volcano? No, of course not. They never do. But we do. We've been partying with their heedless ilk on the eve of disaster since we started going to the movies. We know that when the pretty girl and the handsome lad start moonily planning their future, the crump-crump-crump of an artillery barrage is but a moment away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE ROAD TOO WELL TRAVELED | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

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