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...Despite the lack of a canine breakthrough, dog owners are the biggest clients of Genetic Savings & Clone, a commercial spin-off of Missyplicity that offers to freeze pet dna for future cloning for $895 plus $100 annual storage. A white canister?which looks like an Artoo Detoo unit?is already full of hundreds of trays containing genetic material from cats and dogs, with a few prized horses and cattle nestled in the whirling eddies of subzero liquid nitrogen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Copydog, Copycat | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

Despite the lack of a canine breakthrough, dog owners are the biggest clients of Genetic Savings & Clone, a commercial spin-off of Missyplicity that offers to freeze pet DNA for future cloning for $895 plus $100 annual storage. A white canister--which looks like an Artoo Detoo unit--is already full of hundreds of trays containing genetic material from cats and dogs, with a few prized horses and cattle nestled in the whirling eddies of subzero liquid nitrogen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Cloning: Copydog, Copycat | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

HUNTER DRONE Unmanned spy plane apparently shot down. Artoo Detoo holds Milosevic personally responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Apr. 19, 1999 | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...knight with Lando Calrissian's righteous swagger (Gavan O'Herlihy), a willful princess with martial guile (Joanne Whalley), a Yoda-like wizard (Billy Barty), an ancient sorceress -- Obi-Wan Kenobi's kid sister, perhaps -- struggling under a curse (Patricia Hayes) and a couple of impish brownies reminiscent of Artoo Detoo and See Threepio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Empire Strikes Out WILLOW | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...liberal-humanist persuasion. If the irony that a cute thinking machine might be able to teach real people something about moral philosophy appeals to you, then you may like Short Circuit. If, on the other hand, your taste in robots runs toward the apolitical comedy of Artoo Detoo, then Director John Badham's efficient realization of a script by S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock may strike you as entirely too preachy keen. Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg are the lovers matched by the machine; Austin Pendleton and Fisher Stevens are funny as, respectively, an ambiguous enemy and the malaprop-prone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: May 19, 1986 | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

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