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...hype is only half right. Though we have no definite statistics yet, we know that growth has slowed from the white-hot rate of 5 percent to the more prosaic but healthy 1-3 percent. On that basis, the financial media--out of boredom more than anything else--has started wondering if the world is about to end, and whether it will be by fire or ice. The conclusion: either will suffice...
...That has many scientists scared to death. Because even if all these headlines are hype and we are actually far away from seeing the first human clone, the very fact that at this moment the research is proceeding underground, unaccountable, poses a real threat. The risk lies not just with potential babies born deformed, as many animal clones are; not just with desperate couples and cancer patients and other potential "clients" whose hopes may be raised and hearts broken and life savings wiped out. The immediate risk is that a backlash against renegade science might strike at responsible science...
Amid the unrelenting hype generated by such bubblegum-and-pimples-set acts as Destiny's Child and the Backstreet Boys, the record business has been slow to notice that the year's most dramatic run up the charts belongs not to a girl group or boy band but to a solitary reggae singer and Gulf War veteran named Shaggy...
...hype here: there are nearly 11 hours of buried treasures, most of them from the first half century of movies, all rescued and restored by nonprofit institutions. Among the finds in this handsome four-disc set are footage of Orson Welles' 1936 "Voodoo" Macbeth and Marian Anderson's 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial; a 1901 trick film transferred from paper prints; a 1905 ride on a New York City subway; such avant-garde classics as The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) and Joseph Cornell's Rose Hobart (1936), a work with such power to shock that Salvador...
...deal with Fox - an expansion of the schedule to cities in the West, Midwest and Northeast, and some new rules designed to make the sport more exciting to the general public. Fox, with the colorful Waltrip in the booth, eagerly applied its particular brand of glitzy graphics and breathless hype to the proceedings. No longer was stock-car racing going to be the Roger Clinton of professional sports - it was making its bid to join baseball, football, basketball, in the American sport mainstream...