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...Creating such small, single-purpose organisms is nowhere near as complex as creating larger, multicelled creatures - things with mobility, behavior, a purpose, a face. Those fanciful and frightful things are surely many years away and may prove too challenging and disturbing for society to allow. What Venter appears to have done, however, is crack the manufacturing code. Once you've done that, there may be little limit on what you can eventually build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scientist Creates Life — Almost | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

...problem is that no one can prove what complex chemistry of cause and effect, culture and calculation, explains the falling rates - and for people who have devoted their lives to this issue, there's no glory in achieving one's ends if the means are anathema. Pro-choice groups credit comprehensive sex education and access to contraception, strategies that social conservatives often resist. Pro-lifers credit campaigns to tighten laws controlling access to abortion and to warn women about abortion's risks - which the other side deplores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Have Abortion Rates Fallen? | 1/21/2008 | See Source »

...relatively liberal perspectives. In a letter last week to Kolvenbach, on the eve of the election of his successor and a month-long meeting of a congregation of Jesuit leaders, Benedict implored the order to hold firm in Catholic tradition on matters of morality and sexuality. "It could prove extremely useful that the general congregation reaffirm, in the spirit of St. Ignatius, its own total adhesion to Catholic doctrine, in particular on those neuralgic points which today are strongly attacked by secular culture," the Pope said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the New "Black Pope" Work? | 1/19/2008 | See Source »

Although pundits and campaign staffers alike will spend the days leading up to the South Carolina primary attempting to predict the outcome of the "black vote," the voters themselves prove the folly of such an exercise. Hammock says she will end up making what she calls a highly "political" choice: she wants to give "this one little ole vote" to whichever Democrat she believes is going to win the nomination so that he or she has the most resounding mandate possible going into the general election. Meanwhile, Anderson told me in Columbia that she didn't yet have enough information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Down the Black Vote | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...Paul, the driver who also died in the 1997 crash in Paris - and Ian Croxford, representing the Ritz Hotel, Paris, the starting point for Diana and Dodi's fateful journey, also got in on the act. Questioning him one after the other, they all seemed to be trying to prove the same thing: there are three sides to every story - Paul Burrell's, Paul Burrell's, and the truth. Using his books and articles and transcripts of his earlier testimonies, they spent the morning quoting his own words back to him, pointing out discrepancies between what he had said back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diana's Butler Defends Himself | 1/16/2008 | See Source »

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