Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cousin, too, is changing, maturing and learning to deal with life on the row. He still watches cartoons, but he's reading more. He read John Grisham's The Chamber to get some idea about what death row was really like; now he's reading For the Defense by Rubin Ellis. But he is still caught up in memories of childhood. The father of a recreational-league basketball player whose team was an arch rival of Cousin's squad is in the next cell. "It was the only team that beat us," says Cousin. "That was the last game...
...goal of the USPS is simply to stay in business. And just the idea that his competitors are complaining must mean Runyon has made some progress toward achieving...
...want to take a spin. Over the past decade, the company's North American unit has been hammered. Although last year VW of America increased sales 1.2%, to 137,885 cars, that's only a third of the metal VW of America moved in its mid-1960s heyday. The idea of reviving the Bug came after VW buffs went wild over a Beetle built for display at the Detroit auto show four years ago. The company did some market research and decided it might be able to win Americans back by rolling out a contemporary version (the engine...
...inevitable that a maverick like Richard Seed would emerge from the shadowy fringes of science to champion the cause of human cloning. Yet when Seed trotted out his scheme to open a commercial cloning clinic in the Chicago area, the world reacted with stunned surprise. President Clinton blasted the idea as "untested and unsafe and morally unacceptable." Experts questioned whether the 69-year-old physicist was capable of carrying out such an ambitious undertaking. Said University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan: "He has as much chance of cloning a human as my Uncle Morty does...
...Bono remade them into a nightclub act of kitsch hippiedom. By 1971 they were starring in the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, the CBS variety show that brought a jokey, mass-market, safe feminism to TV as Sonny played emasculated buffoon to Cher's smart aleck. It was all his idea. As Cher said during her astonishing funeral oration last week, "He had the confidence to be the butt of the joke because he created the joke." But he was also in charge of the joke. The show ended in 1974 when Cher left Sonny, accusing him of virtually keeping...