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...when scientists find a gene that makes you shy, makes you reckless, makes you sad. For families haunted by generations of loss to cystic fibrosis and Tay-Sachs disease and sickle-cell anemia, prenatal testing may spare them a future as painful as the past. But if we can screen embryos for curses, should we also screen for gifts? Do you want to know if your child will have perfect pitch or violet eyes? Would parents love their children differently if they designed them to order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret of Life | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...something going," says ex-boyfriend Robert Hall. "Lana wanted to be 'in the scene' so she could meet someone to help her along." Her website exhibits photos of her with soap-opera actors as well as with older stars like Kirk Douglas and Paul Newman. But her screen credits (Barbarian Queen) were not up to that level. Friends described her as always ready to serve as "arm candy"--that is, a pretty date--to industry players, in hopes of landing a role, selling a screenplay idea or hustling a job on a commercial. Says Hall: "She was positive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shot On Location | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...institutions, and this isn’t always a bad thing. I am pretty confident that queer studies will find acceptance here because it is a really vibrant field of intellectual inquiry. The problem for the past ten years or so, though, has been keeping it on the radar screen so that its merits can be recognized...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions For... | 2/13/2003 | See Source »

...many little things here and there throughout the movie that make it great.” There are an array of musical stylings, ranging from Irish bagpipes to Dr. Dre, interspersed clips of social events, interviews with team members and even a split-screen view of one particularly epic play shown simultaneously from different angles à la “The Matrix”. Occasional quotes from Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” also help to remind viewers of ultimate frisbee’s relative place in the scale of human...

Author: By Seth H. Robinson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ultimate Dedication | 2/13/2003 | See Source »

Moore’s second goal was yet another illustration of his playmaking ability. Skating with junior Tyler Kolarik on a 2-on-1 shorthanded rush, Moore cut to his right, using Kolarik as a screen as he carried the puck across the ice. He then deked Norhteastern goaltender Mike Gilhooly before wristing the puck into...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper and Samita A. Mannaperuma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Nice for Weiss | 2/11/2003 | See Source »

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