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...school about you, and you may not be bothered by the fact since you feel you have nothing to hide. But do you send all your mail on postcards? Conduct all your telephone conversations on speakerphone? Leave a note on the door when you leave your room giving your exact destination? Of course not. We all have a reasonable expectation of privacy on campus, a privacy that in most other respects is kept sacred...

Author: By Simon J. Dedeo, | Title: A Plea for Privacy | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

Others said they were unhappy with how SAC had considered the reforms themselves, saying that they reflected the exact problems the reforms were aimed...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IOP Governing Board Rejects Proposal to Open Up Election Process | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...announcement in February 1997 of the birth of a sheep named Dolly, an exact genetic replica of its mother, sparked a worldwide debate over the moral and medical implications of cloning. Several U.S. states and European countries have banned the cloning of human beings, yet South Korean scientists claimed last month that they had already taken the first step. In the following essay for TIME, embryologist Wilmut, who led the team that brought Dolly to life at Scotland's Roslin Institute, explains why he believes the debate over cloning people has largely missed the point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cloning: Dolly's False Legacy | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...were making a last struggle to keep Clinton out of the House impeachment trap. Minority leader Gephardt and his staff were trying to persuade other G.O.P. moderates to join Representative Christopher Shays on a visit to Clinton in person, hear him say something like "I lied"--just not those exact words--then emerge from the White House and tell the press he had said it. But there were no moderates moderate enough for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington Burning | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...shortage at Meribah is solved when God directs Moses to strike a rock with his staff, and water pours forth. When food runs out in the wilderness, he promises to "rain down bread for you from the sky." Of all the biblical wonders, manna may admit to the most exact scientific explanation. (Its name is derived from the Israelites' reaction and may best be translated, "Whatta?") Scripture describes manna as "a fine and flaky substance, as fine as frost on the ground," which falls with the dew but melts when the sun grows hot. In June in the Sinai peninsula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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