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...took was that first headline about the astonishing ewe, and fertility experts began to hear the questions every day. Our two-year-old daughter died in a car crash; we saved a lock of her hair in a baby book. Can you clone her? Why does the law allow people more freedom to destroy fetuses than to create them? My husband had cancer and is sterile. Can you help...

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

...right - at least partly right. In 1980, there were 41,648 drug offenders in prison; today, that number has swollen to 458,131. We lock people up for possession almost as quickly as we do for dealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Robert Downey Jr.'s Case Spark a Change in Drug Sentencing? | 2/7/2001 | See Source »

Since the Thanksgiving contest, it is clear that both squads have improved dramatically, as both teams have steadily climbed in their respective leagues. B.C. has a lock on first place in Hockey East, and the Crimson is only a point from possessing the top slot in the ECAC behind Ivy foe Cornell...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: B.C. Talk of the Town | 2/6/2001 | See Source »

...while it's a heated battle for first in the ECAC among teams like Harvard, Cornell, and St. Lawrence, the Eagles are thick in the hunt for a national championship. B.C. essentially has a lock on its regular season conference title, having dropped both Providence and Maine handily in two games each, including a 7-2 embarrassment of the Black Bears in late January...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: B.C. Talk of the Town | 2/6/2001 | See Source »

...parting gifts included four Orthodox Jews from New York State who had bilked the government out of $40 million in education aid, housing subsidies and small-business loans. During Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign, the First Lady visited the Skver sect in New Square, N.Y., trying, successfully, to lock in a group that usually swings Republican. After the Skver turned out in force for Hillary, she invited the group's spiritual leader to the White House, where he asked the President to lighten the men's sentences. The subsequent commutations only heightened suspicions--vehemently denied by Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's That Smell? | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

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