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Researchers inserted a gene for a red fluorescent protein into the nuclei of a cat's skin cells, which were transplanted into eggs that gave rise to the modified clones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

...report by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies notes the frequent--and often unintentional--discrimination against women, the elderly and the disabled when natural disasters strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

...South Dakota Sioux attending an off-reservation elementary school, actor-musician Floyd Red Crow Westerman had to cut his hair and stop speaking his native language. The experience pushed him in later years to restlessly promote his heritage. A celebrated activist for Native American causes, he became a well-known actor in dozens of films and TV shows, and toured with Sting and performed with Willie Nelson. In his best-known role he played Sioux leader Ten Bears, who befriends Kevin Costner's character in 1990's Dances with Wolves. Westerman was 71 and had leukemia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

...risen since 2002. Gurmit Singh Bains drives his taxi along the riverside. "It's like a ghost town," he says. "The whole economy is down: hotels, restaurants, everything." The waterfront DaimlerChrysler Canada headquarters opened to much fanfare there in 2002, when the city's auto-manufacturing industry was red-hot. Today, the building's cavernous ground-floor retail space is almost empty. As the rising dollar made Canadian products more expensive around the world, Canada shed nearly 100,000 manufacturing jobs in 12 months. "We went from [being] the lowest-cost producer of vehicles around the world for GM, Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Loonie Takes Off in Canada | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

After hours of driving through southern Nepal, the Maoist cantonment proves remarkably easy to find. Red pennants adorn trees and street lamps along miles of dirt road that winds through rice paddies and fields of yellow mustard, ending by a sprawl of ramshackle enclosures and wood huts. There's little sign of military menace as goats and pigs loll around on grass knolls - that's before we near the sandbags of an outer bunker where a young woman in fatigues, who appears to be of school-going age, turns her machine gun in our direction and fixes us with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maoism Around the Campfire | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

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