Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Major General William Nash served as commander of Task Force Eagle, a multinational division organized to implement the Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He has received the Army's Distinguished Service Medal, the Silver Star and the Purple Heart...
...singles, celebrated with a nonstop party that ended when she wrapped her green Mercedes-Benz around a few innocent conifers while under the influence in Connecticut. Baiul, now 20, tells TIME she is an alcoholic, and she is trying to pull herself together. Nancy Kerrigan, who took silver in a showdown watched closely by nearly everyone in the world except maybe the judges, has staged a damage-control clinic after being accused of a series of attitude crimes, including an alleged verbal assault on Mickey Mouse. And speaking of assault, Tonya Harding, the truck-driving heroine of that infamous gang...
Back in Lillehammer, the woman she beat was seen as an ungracious runner-up, especially after skipping the closing ceremonies. But now the silver medalist has her prize. Kerrigan, all of 28, had her parents bring 13-month-old Matthew to the show in Portland. She has told friends for years that all she ever really wanted was a family, and she absolutely glowed when she held her son in her arms...
...should you be panicked? Because humans are next. "It would almost certainly be possible to produce human bodies without a forebrain," Princeton biologist Lee Silver told the London Sunday Times. "These human bodies without any semblance of consciousness would not be considered persons, and thus it would be perfectly legal to keep them 'alive' as a future source of organs...
...barriers are breached. The ethical barriers are already cracking. Lewis Wolpert, professor of biology at University College, London, finds producing headless humans "personally distasteful" but, given the shortage of organs, does not think distaste is sufficient reason not to go ahead with something that would save lives. And Professor Silver not only sees "nothing wrong, philosophically or rationally," with producing headless humans for organ harvesting; he wants to convince a skeptical public that it is perfectly...