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...phones meant two free working phones. Or take my wife, who called an electronics store and had it install a satellite dish on our roof that would, allegedly, bring in zillions of channels but, in reality, brought in only seven. Her fault, because she assumed that the store would repair the transponder and aim it properly. As it happened, the store was just the "agent" for a regional company. What services did this company provide? Only one, we discovered: billing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recession For Dummies | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...brave new world of inquiry into how the wonderfully pliable cells of seven-day-old embryos behave. Embryonic stem cells eventually turn into every kind of tissue, including brain, muscle, nerve and blood. If scientists could harness their powers, these cells could serve as the body's self-repair kit, providing cures for Parkinson's, diabetes, Alzheimer's and paralysis. Actors Christopher Reeve, paralyzed by a fall from a horse, and Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's, are among those who have pushed Congress to overturn the U.S. government's restrictions on federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baby, It's You! and You, and You... | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...brave new world of inquiry into how the wonderfully pliable cells of seven-day-old embryos behave. Embryonic stem cells eventually turn into every kind of tissue, including brain, muscle, nerve and blood. If scientists could harness their powers, these cells could serve as the body's self-repair kit, providing cures for Parkinson's, diabetes, Alzheimer's and paralysis. Actors Christopher Reeve, paralyzed by a fall from a horse, and Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's, are among those who have pushed Congress to overturn the government's restrictions on federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Cloning: Baby, It's You! And You, And You... | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...district money by contracting out lunchroom and maintenance services. With the help of Houston business executives, whose conservative politics had historically been at odds with the district leadership, Paige won voter approval for a $678 million bond issue in 1998--the largest of its kind in Texas--to repair 69 schools and build 10 new ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teacher In Chief | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...what about that second idea? What if you eat right, get into shape, drop all your bad habits and start treating your body like the temple the ancients said it is? Is it too late? If you start today, can you repair the damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repairing The Damage | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

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