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...scientific community," says Washington correspondent Dick Thompson, "the debate is largely settled that the global warming trend is human-induced and the result of industrial emissions into the air." The real debate is not whether the trend will continue, but how abruptly the temperature will rise. "Scientists are not sure whether world temperatures will rise linearly, "says Thompson, "or whether there's a threshold beyond which temperatures will skyrocket." Such dramatic warming periods, over as little as a decade, have already occurred in the history of the Earth. And if one were to occur again now, the ecological and social...
...with varying degrees of success -- but not the man himself. "We have not been tracking Saddam Hussein by day," said Shelton, "and Saddam Hussein was not the objective established for this operation." The President will review the results of tonight's attack before deciding on whether to continue, but Thompson expects the nightly bombing runs to continue Friday and possibly Saturday, when the holy month of Ramadan begins. "Depending on the damage assessments, a mop-up run may be needed," he says. What the Pentagon is hoping for is that they won't need that mop again anytime soon...
...year-old woman into an egg cell, and then let that cell divide twice before stopping the experiment to steer clear of a Korean ban on experimentation with more fully developed embryos. "What this represents is a refinement of the Hawaii technique," says TIME science reporter Dick Thompson...
...enough to prove that an actual cloning has taken place. "One crucial moment is the 16-cell point. Cells divide automatically up to four cells, but it's only after they have divided to 16 that you have a pretty good chance that it's going to work," says Thompson. Because the Koreans stopped the experiment well before that point, it's not clear that the embryo would have grown into a full-fledged human. Still, like it or not, several genetically identical cats have just been...
WASHINGTON: With the second wave of Operation Desert Fox complete, the results from Round One are in. So how's the war going? "The strikes have hit a wide assortment of targets, and done a lot of damage," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. But simple demolition isn't why the U.S. is waging this war. "The point of all this is to reduce and cripple Saddam's weapons arsenal," Thompson says. "Just because there's a lot of destruction doesn't mean they're accomplishing that goal...