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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Human cloning will always be an absolute wrong. To compromise with such an evil is to surrender to it. Without delay, Congress should outlaw it totally and forever, setting exceptionally strong penalties for scientists who violate the ban. We must apply the brake of sanity to genetic engineering's locomotive. BEN MCKELWAY Plymouth, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 9, 1998 | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...Supreme Court rejects Clinton's request for delay in Paula Jones case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock... | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...class, Reese engaged in a regimen for serious weight-loss. Long after his teammates had stopped practicing and gone to dinner, Reese stayed behind to shave those final fatal pounds under the supervision of Assistant Coach Joe McFarland. Ninety minutes before his death, Reese asked McFarland if he could delay his weigh-in until the next morning. McFarland responded that Reese would not be eligible for the upcoming meet unless he made weight that night...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Wrestling Reaches a Crossroad | 2/5/1998 | See Source »

...under a judge's scrutiny. And both of them make the President look like he's lying. But of course he may be lying. If that's the case, fighting Starr in the courts buys the White House what it cherishes most: time. The plan, says McAllister, is to delay things a while and "hope that they catch a break." That's the Administration mantra: The later America finds out, the better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Delay, Delay, Delay | 2/5/1998 | See Source »

...breather, the talk has turned to how the Clinton Administration can narrow the scope of Ken Starr's relentless inquiry. And the answer is two words: Executive privilege. Invoking the rights of White House employees on the basis of national security, Washington lawyers say, could delay the independent counsel's investigation and provoke a protracted court battle. "What they are discussing is what witnesses will be able to talk about ... with certain privileges to protect," one official told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall of Silence | 2/4/1998 | See Source »

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