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...carbon gas emissions will have increased 33 percent from 1990 levels; Kyoto requires that they be 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by then. But fulfilling the Kyoto requirements may not even be the administration's intention. "They signed the Kyoto treaty as a freebie," says TIME science editor Phillip Elmer-DeWitt. "They can score points with environmentalists while at the same time they're counting on the Senate to kill...
...primeval soup known as stem cells (which can be transformed into either human tissue or a clone of its donor), has been greeted with a healthy dose of skepticism by observers who suggest the Times has been duped. "They haven't done the science," says TIME science editor Phillip Elmer-DeWitt. "They haven't reproduced it. It isn't science until you do it a second time." Indeed, the biotech firm Advanced Cell Technologies has offered little more than a patent application and a photograph of embryonic cells under a microscope...
...raising eyebrows because cows and humans took separate evolutionary paths more than 10 million years ago; the two cell nuclei are so different that they're unlikely to stick together for long. "There's no reason to believe this thing would get past a few cell divisions," says Elmer-DeWitt...
...with the best in the miniature golfing world. "The regulars are always there," Gilchrist remembers. "Tom Dixon, the best miniature golfer in the world, as he likes to call himself, shows up every year in his 18-wheeler, as do Tommy Thelin, the Swedish Miniature Golf Champ, Elmer Lawson, the man who decided to get married at the sixth hole of this particular course in 1997, as well as the group of middle-aged preppies, one of who, in response to compliment from me last year, stuck his nose up and said, 'We're professionals...
...know that global temperatures are up, and one of the things people worry about with global warming is that the icecaps could melt enough to put New York, for example, under water," says Elmer-Dewitt. Instead of being a patch of warm weather, it's a matter of a change in climate, and as Elmer-Dewitt says, "In the dispute over the effects of burning hydrocarbons, there's nothing like an iceberg the size of Delaware to get the world's attention...