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...Philip Elmer-DeWitt...
...stock prices) soaring. But it also presented the type of challenge that is particularly important in covering potential medical breakthroughs, especially ones in which "cure" and "cancer" appear in the same sentence. "We were seeing a disturbing disconnect between the headlines and the actual science," says science editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, whose staff was already reporting a cover on cancer. "We thought we could separate the hope from the hype with some expert explaining...
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...PHILIP ELMER-DEWITT, TIME's science editor, knows firsthand how quickly technology can race ahead of those who think or write about it. While putting together the package of stories for this week's special report on the first cloning of an adult mammal, he was reminded that just four years ago, in another TIME cover story--one he wrote--we said the possibility of replicating an animal from the dna of fully developed cells is "far beyond the reach of today's science." The next technological step, he notes, might not be too far off. "Suddenly the possibility...