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...reproductive human cloning (i.e. creating a child), citing safety concerns, the prestigious group calls for work to continue in the field of embryonic cloning, where scientists create embryos in order to extract stem cells for use in medical research. Stem cells, of course, remain a political hot potato, simultaneously sparking high hopes of cures and treatments among researchers and advocates but horrifying many pro-life groups, which view embryos as human life and the extraction of stem cells as the destruction of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Scientists Speak: No Human Cloning | 1/18/2002 | See Source »

...tourists. Like several other retailers, the family owners of Laotian restaurant Mangez Avec Moi supplement their diminished income by selling F.D.N.Y. T shirts and hats on weekends. Moran's, an Irish steak house on the opposite end of the district, replaced its upscale menu with mozzarella sticks, potato skins and chicken fingers. "We couldn't offer a stuffed sole for $35 or a porterhouse," says Abby Lydon, the restaurant's co-owner. "That business lunch is no longer here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ground Zero: Out Of the Ruins | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...trying to be a little healthier," he would tell her whenever she suggested taking up the old routine. At a late-September reunion of her family, he seemed slightly more animated talking with her father and male cousins, but when E.J. came over to set down a bowl of potato chips, the men promptly shut up. The two had known each other since she was 13; still he had yet to tell her a single detail of the most terrifying day of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glory In The Glare | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...nation's cable lines are in the hands of rivals like AOL Time Warner (parent company of this writer) and half-rivals like AT&T Broadband and Comcast who have plenty of content-distribution deals already inked - making reasonably priced access via cable into the U.S. couch-potato market hard to find. Making EchoStar-DirecTV and its control of 90 percent of the current satellite-TV market a perfect partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Vivendi Did the Dish | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...This is that rare example of a children's book that's fact-filled without being dull. The "facts" are not necessarily useful or even true, which may be why the book is so much fun. In rhyme, it narrates how items such as Frisbees and piggyback rides and potato chips were invented. Harper wrote and illustrated this book, her second, and she has a spry, zippy style with pen and with brush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Kids' Books You've Never Heard Of | 12/11/2001 | See Source »

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