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Rorvik brings the issue into the public arena and asks the more important question: should cloning be done? He presents his thoughts, those of Darwin and other respected scientists in a haphazard fashion, reflecting the uncertainties in his mind as he formulates the decision to seek out a researcher and go ahead with the cloning...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Cloning Around | 4/15/1978 | See Source »

...storm on a system of intense high pressure that has been meandering back and forth across Canada all winter. A similar system, known to forecasters as a "blocking high," caused California's two-year drought. This winter the Canadian high has been spraying snow and cold in seemingly haphazard, unpredictable directions, plunging temperatures to the 20s in Atlanta and setting snowfall records in places like Valdez, Alaska, which has had more than 63 in. so far. Meteorologists frankly admit that they understand very little about "blocking highs"-except that this one will surely bring more cold and snow. Advises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Blizzard of the Century | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...Corp., Music was exhaustively researched for over two years to discover, among other things, what kids did and did not know about the subject. Its primary goal, says the WETA team, is to combat the lack of music education in schools today. "The state of teaching is at best haphazard," says Sidlin, who taught in public schools for seven years and has subsequently entertained young audiences at over 350 youth concerts. "In some schools now they must justify retaining a music teacher by saying that songs help teach math or reading or science," he complains. "But what in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Making Music Leap to Life | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...should be in the calculations of any healthy individual, but it appears as neither obsession nor nasty surprise. As Deerfield comes to realize, it is just part of life, something we must learn to accept, as some of us must learn to accept such happier but equally haphazard gifts-a brief romance, a sweet spring day. The comparison here must be to Love Story, in which mortality was dragged onstage-like Lord Olivier making a cameo appearance-to lend spurious dignity to an otherwise tacky enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Mortality Play | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...diary entries are haphazard, sometimes only a paragraph long and are burdened with third-hand philosophy and verse that can most charitably be called forced...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Sherry and Schopenhauer | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

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