Word: spared
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...problem is not an entirely new one. The earliest monasteries were founded in the 4th century in the Egyptian desert. As Christianity became legalized and then haute, the Desert Fathers and Mothers found themselves overrun by hipsters from Alexandria and Rome. Father Robert of New Camaldoli, where the spare rooms offer a heart-stopping view of the Pacific--for $30 a night--can relate. A hard call? "Sometimes," he sighs, "the first question is about the pool or the tennis courts...
...half since Scottish embryologist Ian Wilmut presented Dolly, the cloned sheep, to an astonished world, ethicists and policymakers have been struggling with the unsettling implications of his research. Could scientists use Wilmut's method to clone not just sheep but also billionaires, basketball players and bodies grown for spare parts? Should medical entrepreneurs be allowed to pursue cloning wherever it leads? Or should the government step in now and outlaw it before it starts...
...Certainly the slowdown, caused in great part by the GM strike, should spare the Fed any worries about inflation or having to raise interest rates. But with the July effects of the just-settled strike counting toward next quarter, experts are predicting more of the same for July-September. Is it time to start crying recession? Baumohl doubts it. "So many other indicators, such as consumer spending and new equipment purchasing, are still strong. There isn't much out there that's alarming." If a recession does come, it will come unannounced...
...happy to say Steinbrenner deserves almost no credit for such ruthless (and Mantle-less) efficiency. This team is the brainchild of now departed general manager Bob Watson and has been gracefully deployed by its manager, the modest Joe Torre. It's been assembled from a veritable spare-parts bin of players: Hideki Irabu from Japan, Cuban emigre Orlando Hernandez, a few from trades and the free-agent rolls. Perhaps most remarkable is the provenance of Jeter, Williams and starting pitcher Andy Pettitte: Each came from the once suspect Yankees farm system...
Jenny E. Heller, a sophomore romance studies concentrator in Lowell House, is writing and reporting for the Associated Press in London and free-lancing in her spare time. She grew up in Brussels, Belgium and now lives in London...