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...more. The mood of these astronomical party poopers is to discard planets, not to find them; the children of tomorrow shall grow up to find all planets found, all lands mapped--all mysteries revealed as mundane facts. The new worlds we now seek ring not our own, but faint and distant suns--poor substitutes for Galileo's heirs...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Editor's Notebook: In Defense of Pluto | 2/28/2001 | See Source »

...about cloning?let alone the rest of us?don't fully understand its implications. Cloning, notes ethicist Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania, "can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them, it will be faint consolation to the dead one that the other one is still running around, even though they are genetically identical. So the road to immortality is not through cloning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baby, It's You! and You, and You... | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...about cloning--let alone the rest of us--don't fully understand its implications. Cloning, notes ethicist Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania, "can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them, it will be faint consolation to the dead one that the other one is still running around, even though they are genetically identical. So the road to immortality is not through cloning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Cloning: Baby, It's You! And You, And You... | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...sense, Clinton has done the exact opposite. Without the trappings of his office, his actions have lost any even faint moral justification and seem merely shabby. And what moral justification is there anyway for slipping out of the house with some silverware and a few couches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Stand So Close to Me | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

...Measles is a faint memory of a mild childhood disease in the United States," Sachs said. "It takes about a million lives a year in the poor countries...

Author: By S. CHARTEY Quarcoo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sachs Speaks on AIDS | 2/7/2001 | See Source »

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