Word: orderlies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...London! "Where can you buy those damn things?" I asked. It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship that has at last allowed me to answer the biggest question of our TIME: You can find Monimals at the Electronic Boutique chain. Or call 1-800-948-6777 to order direct...
...sides. In fact, you could argue that Flynt and Scaife are just Democratic and Republican versions of the same person: neither is troubled by scruples, but the Republican, like those Republicans we saw on the House Judiciary Committee, is tidier and seems to have a lot less fun. In order to finance the Arkansas Project, an effort to find something dirty on Bill Clinton, Scaife coughed up roughly the same sort of money that Flynt offered in the advertisement he took to flush out bimbos with Republican leanings. Scaife was using tax-free foundation money, which simply reflects the fact...
Genetic screening is also becoming an issue in the courts, not just as a forensic tool to catch criminals but even to settle private squabbles, says Professor Lori Andrews of Chicago-Kent College of Law. In a custody case in South Carolina, a judge ordered a man's former wife to be tested for Huntington's because it might impair her ability to care for their children. In another case, a manufacturer demanded a genetic test of an ailing boy in order to show that his illness was caused not by the toxicity of substances made by the company...
...beyond weeding out undesirable traits and start actually inserting the genes they want--perhaps even genes that have been crafted in a lab. Before the new millennium is many years old, parents may be going to fertility clinics and picking from a list of options the way car buyers order air conditioning and chrome-alloy wheels. "It's the ultimate shopping experience: designing your baby," says biotechnology critic Jeremy Rifkin, who is appalled by the prospect. "In a society used to cosmetic surgery and psychopharmacology, this is not a big step...
...Elizabeth's Isner found a novel way around the delivery problem. Eschewing virus carriers, he fashioned a construct called "naked DNA." It consists of part of a human gene called VEG-F, which stimulates the growth of blood vessels, and includes its signal segments. These segments, Isner explains, "order the cell, once it has manufactured the gene product, to export it from the cell...