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...Edinburgh. From the outside, she looked no different from thousands of other sheep born each summer on surrounding farms. But Dolly, as the world soon came to realize, was no ordinary lamb. She was cloned from a single mammary cell of an adult ewe, overturning long-held scientific dogma that had declared such a thing biologically impossible. Her birth set off a race in laboratories around the world to duplicate the breakthrough. It also raised the specter--however distant--of human cloning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perils of Cloning | 7/5/2006 | See Source »

...know my mom was Jewish until I was 13. I was so traumatized by the Catholic experience that I never thought to ask, "Why doesn't Mom go to church?" Even though I may not have known I was the product of a mixed marriage, I definitely understood that dogma was not a good thing. If they had a dogma, it was that they were always on the side of the little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Bill Maher | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

BRAM COHEN Creator of BitTorrent, the world's most popular open-source file-sharing software I nominate Steven Soderbergh, director, writer and producer, who broke Hollywood dogma by releasing his movie Bubble simultaneously in theaters, on cable TV and DVD. He's willing to experiment with new technologies to deliver what consumers want. Also William Poundstone, whose book Fortune's Formula gives a readable explanation of how investing for the most profit inherently involves roller-coaster downturns. It's an insightful analysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Should Be Among This Year's Picks for the TIME 100? | 4/16/2006 | See Source »

...leaders, pioneers, and heroes. The manly man does not hesitate to command authority in times of crisis, venture into the unknown, or put his life on the line in defense of a cause. In its most sublime form, manliness becomes philosophical courage, or the willingness to challenge dogma with new formulations of truth. Women are not incapable of manifesting these traits—Mansfield cites Margaret Thatcher as an example of the “manly woman”—but it is overwhelmingly “the attribute...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Where Have The Manly Men Gone? | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

...discovery of Tiktaalik a pivotal moment that profoundly shifts the balance in the tension between those who accept evolution and those who question it? Probably not. Those who regard creationism as dogma will probably remain unmoved by any manner of scientific evidence. For those who are uncertain, however, the fishapod may be a source of enlightenment, a demonstration that we can recover ancient clues to events clearly predicted by the theory of evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darwin Would Have Loved It | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

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