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...science circus comes to town when a group like the Raelians claims to be cloning children, announcing one arrival just in time to fill the holiday news vacuum. The news came as a shock but not much of a surprise. It was only a matter of time before one of the teams racing to produce the first human clone either succeeded or just decided to claim it had. Chemist Brigitte Boisselier, president of the biotech company Clonaid, is a member of the Order of Angels of the Raelian religious cult, whose prophet Rael says 4-ft.-tall green space aliens...
...Jasper, a race-relations adviser to London Mayor Ken Livingstone. At a Whitehall summit called by Home Secretary David Blunkett, politicians, bureaucrats and police officers expressed grave concern over the latest crime statistics. That both meetings, which took place last week, were about gun crimes is a rude shock for many Britons, shaking their smug self-image as a relatively gun-free society, far removed from those trigger-happy cowboys across the Atlantic. The Birmingham carnage - two girls died and two were injured in the cross-fire between two turf-warring gangs - was supposed to happen in places like...
...merger in almost every way possible. "We could write a training manual about our experiences in Germany," Scott says. "We really did more things wrong than right." German consumers love low grocery prices, which would make them the perfect clientele for Wal-Mart, but they, too, experienced culture shock when confronted by Southern hospitality. Germans found Wal-Mart's famous door greeters appalling, and they don't want to be approached by ever-helpful clerks in the stores - it's considered an intrusion. The company says it is narrowing losses and hitting targets, but analysts say Wal-Mart...
Sellars, who was born in Pittsburgh in 1957, is world-famous for staging bizarre twists on classic drama. With his short frame dressed in bright colors and elaborate accessories, Sellars speaks slowly and never breaks eye contact. He smiles frequently from beneath a shock of brown hair that resembles Astroturf...
...your system. It's also a good time to think about your eating and drinking habits." Upon her recommendation, I decide on a three-and-a-half-day cleanse. Before I begin, however, I have to spend two days eating raw foods to prepare my system for the shock...