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European countries are also paving the way toward stricter regulation. Nineteen countries there outlawed the use of cloning to create babies at a conference in Paris last week. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) stated that she would introduce similar legislation to outlaw the same procedure for 10 years...

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CONTRIBUTING REPORTING | Title: Alumnus Plans to Clone Humans | 1/21/1998 | See Source »

...American politics--once the small domain of names like Roosevelt, Rockefeller and Kennedy--has expanded to include all sorts of Regular Rich Guys. In the past election cycle, 145 candidates for Congress (up 10% from 1994) spent at least $100,000 of their own money on their campaigns. Nineteen spent $1 million or more. And with nearly a full year to go before the 1998 elections, 133 House hopefuls have plunked down at least $50,000 of their own cash. In California, Senate candidate Darrell Issa, a car-alarm magnate, has pledged to put up as much as $14 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW RICH MAN'S CLUB | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...rivers of lava, gas and ash down its flanks onto the villages below. As farmers tended to their carrot and cabbage fields, huge rocks showered on them and the scorching lava raced over the scalded ground. Ash-filled smoke plunged the land into darkness. There was nowhere to run. Nineteen people died, buried under tons of volcanic slag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNDER THE VOLCANO | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...Nineteen master of medical sciences (M.M.Sc.) and 186 doctor of medicine (M.D.) degrees will be awarded at the Medical School (HMS), according to Associate Registrar Lisa A. Oteri...

Author: By Justin D. Lerer, | Title: 5,969 to Receive Degrees in Today's Ceremony | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...truck was picked up on April 17, 1995, but McGown could not remember whether he had seen it that day or the day before, Easter Sunday. Obviously, if McGown saw the truck on April 16, it could not have been the same truck McVeigh is said to have rented. Nineteen years old, McGown became incoherent and stammered as Jones bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BURDEN OF PROOF | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

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