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...lame and everyone has a paper due the next day and a resume to pad. No one has the time to enjoy the simpler pleasures in life: the rich, loamy taste of a Guinness pint, the bubbly bite of a gin and tonic, the subtle musk of a fine merlot. Put bluntly, no one has time to just chill out and have a drink...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: A Toast to Binge Drinking | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

Encouraging young people to engage in political activism, Davis said that the "message is lost on you because you have so many opportunities in this fine institution that just aren't available to the rest of the country...

Author: By Benjamin D. Grizzle, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Campaign Managers Convene for Conference | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...Siilats] got overconfident at 1.80, and I got overconfident at 1.90, so we kind of did the same thing," Gyorffy said. "But she's going on to nationals, and she'll be fine there...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Track Improves But Fails To Defend Heps Title | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...Roman Catholic Church, the entire question is one of world view: whether life is a gift of love or just one more industrial product, a little more valuable than most. Those who believe that the soul enters the body at the moment of conception think it is fine for God to make clones; he does it about 4,000 times a day, when a fertilized egg splits into identical twins. But when it comes to massaging a human life, for the scientist to do mechanically what God does naturally is to interfere with his work, and no possible benefit...

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

...more such peddlers proliferate, the more politicians will be tempted to invoke prohibitions. Four U.S. states?California, Louisiana, Michigan and Rhode Island?have already banned human cloning, and soon Texas may become the fifth. Republican state senator Jane Nelson has introduced a bill in Austin that would impose a fine of as much as $1 million for researchers who use cloning technology to initiate pregnancy in humans. The proposed Texas law would permit embryonic-stem-cell research, but bills proposed in other states were so broadly written that they could have stopped those activities...

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

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