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...sometimes been like this: passionate, premeditated, but maybe driven by anxiety more than anything else. As a society, we tend to be nervous about knowledge, especially that which concerns the very building blocks of existence. Genetic engineering is exactly the kind of vague, little understood subject that can scare people with its Orwellian implication...

Author: By Mattias S. Geise, | Title: Creating Chimeras | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

After surviving the eight-inning scare and a scoreless ninth, the Crimson bats finally heated up in extra innings...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Baseball Escapes URI with 7-6 Win | 4/8/1998 | See Source »

...SKIN SCARE Get to the dermatologist if someone in your family has had more than one melanoma. It may signal a genetic predisposition to the cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Report: Apr. 6, 1998 | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...green and picturesque, sparkles on postcards. The Chamber of Commerce runs a trolley to the viewing stand and gift shop that it operates high over the waters. "Biggest tourist draw in southwest Montana," a chamber official crows. But even as visitors stream in, authorities must take elaborate steps to scare away waterfowl with loudspeakers, firecrackers and a boat. Such precautions weren't in place three years ago, when migrating Canadian snow geese had the misfortune to touch down on the waters for a drink. In the following days, officials counted 342 carcasses floating and washed ashore, their insides scoured with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Butte, Montana: The Giant Cup Of Poison | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...outguess science? Movie moguls hope so, for there are two pricey epics hurtling toward theaters, both about huge chunks of astral matter on a collision course with Earth. There hasn't been such potentially profitable synergy between Hollywood and scare headlines since--well, since Primary Colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Worlds Collide...It'll Be At The Multiplex | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

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