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Yesterday afternoon, British comedian Tracey Ullman was given the 110th annual Elmer Award for excellence in comedy by the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
According to Lampoon President Matthew J.T. Murray '99, previous recipients of the Elmer Award include Bill Cosby, Chevy Chase, Clint Eastwood, Winston Churchill...
...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...
...Wild Hare," the first cartoon to star Bugs Bunny, shows the rabbit's evolution. Even in this earliest specimen, though, the style and substance of the Bugs and Elmer cartoons are clearly defined: Bugs takes to cross dressing to fool the wily hunter. "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!" was made years later, but is essentially the same cartoon with added finesse. In this update, despite Daffy's attempts to stop Bugs' beguiling banter, Elmer's gun keeps displacing Daffy's break from his head...
...directs the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City, did not make it easy for our staff; he was concerned throughout the project that his work be put in the context of all that is happening in the field. It was only when science editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt laid out our comprehensive editorial plans that Ho realized what decision had been made. "Does that mean I'm Man of the Year?" he gulped. "That makes me very uncomfortable." Ho relaxed when convinced that his experiments with the new antiviral "cocktails" would not be touted as a "cure...