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Each new adult-stem-cell breakthrough makes the research easier by offering scientists more options, but advances in genetics make the issue of reproduction harder. Couples can screen out embryos for cystic fibrosis and cancer risk. Should they also be allowed to screen for blond, for smart, for straight or gay? We are on a road toward reproduction that doesn't require eggs and sperm at all. This is a moral wilderness, full of hope and traps. I don't expect aspiring parents to bring order to it when all they want is to survive the journey and make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanted: Someone to Play God | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...ground and pull away from Yale tomorrow. In terms of a tie-breaker, we want to win it against them.”Brown, on the other hand, sits at the bottom of the ECAC standings, tied with Dartmouth and Rensselaer for 10th place. Although the Bears notched two straight wins to open February, including the 4-2 victory over Harvard, they enter Saturday night’s action 1-3 in their last four games.Brown sophomore netminder Dan Rosen, the ECAC Goalie of the Week earlier this month, held Harvard off with 32 saves in the teams?...

Author: By Nick Traverse, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Revenge Up Next For Crimson | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...Ponta dos Ganchos also makes a good base for trying other activities the area is famous for. Chug out to an oyster farm with a local fisherman to taste oysters scooped straight from the sea. Hike to hidden waterfalls. Sip potent caipirinhas made with locally brewed cachaç a. Or catch a speedboat to the ancient fort on Anhatomirim Island, where the Portuguese fought both Spaniards and pirates. Nature lovers should visit Garopaba Bay, south of Florianópolis, to spot whales migrating to warmer waters between June and November. It seems even the ocean-going whale finds the Emerald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beautiful South | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

Notching his ninth straight win in roughly a period of two weeks, Barack Obama forged another broad coalition of whites, blacks and political independents to cruise to a resounding victory over Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin on Tuesday. The streak continued with a tenth win in Hawaii later that day. Obama's victories, though widely predicted, were by a wider (double-digit) margin than many had expected in Wisconsin, lending him an unusual and enviable momentum as the race turns now to Ohio and Texas on March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dems Move on to Texas and Ohio | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...make the mistake, when in Barcelona, of assuming you're in Spain: The locals in the enchanting Mediterranean coastal city, and the triangle-shaped territory around it, cite Catalan as their national identity. In conversations across the spectrum - young and old, leftist and right-wing, gay and straight, a retired couple near Tarragona and a Moroccan immigrant in Vic - the upcoming Spanish elections are discussed as if they're taking place in a foreign country. "For Catalonia, it is better if?" was how the typical response began. Here, road signs and restaurant menus are written in Catalan. It's also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Kosovo Divides Europe | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

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