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Both bills before the House promised to outlaw "reproductive cloning," i.e., cloning to create a baby. But lawmakers had to decide what price they would pay to make sure that ban really stuck. The hard-line choice was Florida Republican Dave Weldon's bill, which would bar the creation of cloned human embryos for any purpose and punish violators with 10 years in jail and a $1 million fine. The alternative amendment, introduced by Republican Jim Greenwood of Pennsylvania, would also bar reproductive cloning but would allow "therapeutic cloning," in which scientists create embryos in order to harvest the precious...
...high rents for the frisson of seeing Gwyneth Paltrow sipping a latte at the corner cafe. Sure, it's hard to give up traffic control and Air Force One. But he makes himself a movable feast, providing sidewalk entertainment to a surprised group of rock fans waiting for the Dave Matthews Band in front of the Rihga Royal hotel. A frequent sight on the New York-to-Washington shuttle, where the prevailing ethic is no eye contact, Clinton works the aisles until forced to take his seat...
...computer and telecom-equipment makers now facing rebellious shareholders and piles of inventory, the prospect of a cash infusion from the sale of their factories to EMS companies is especially appealing. "We used to have to fight and plead for companies to divest assets to us," says Dave Fargnoli, a director of finance at Flextronics. "Now we're in the driver's seat because they are rushing to off-load them." Marks, a salesman to the bone, tells potential customers: "You can be a market-leading company and not make a single thing." Why not, he adds with a grin...
...high rents for the frisson of seeing Gwyneth Paltrow sipping a latte at the corner cafe. Sure, it's hard to give up traffic control and Air Force One. But he makes himself a movable feast, providing sidewalk entertainment to a surprised group of rock fans waiting for the Dave Matthews Band in front of the Rihga Royal hotel. A frequent sight on the New York-to-Washington shuttle, where the prevailing ethic is no eye contact, Clinton works the aisles until forced to take his seat...
...message boards like the Book Group List, where members engage in deep, no-nonsense talks--most recently on Milan Kundera's Immortality--that remind me of my English classes at Dartmouth. My favorite Yahoo club was Bookworms, where we talked about A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. I liked the group; it fostered down-to-earth conversations in which people felt free to disagree and explain why. (I'm looking forward to a group starting in August devoted to New York Times best sellers, beginning with John Grisham's A Painted House...