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...created a genetic double of man's best friend. Not, that is, until South Korean researcher Woo Suk Hwang and his team at Seoul National University brought Snuppy the puppy into the world--an animal whose entire genome came from a single cell from the ear of a three-year-old Afghan hound. Snuppy's arrival, announced in Nature last week, earned grudging admiration from rival cloners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woof, Woof! Who's Next? | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

Privacy advocates from both inside and outside higher education have made protestations against the government in the wake of the Pentagon’s May unveiling of a three-year-old database containing personal information on students nationwide...

Author: By Natalie I. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DOD Announces Massive Student Database | 7/1/2005 | See Source »

...getting rough and out of hand. Nobody seems to use poison anymore. In Fort Lauderdale two years ago, a 79-year-old man shot his 62-year-old wife in the stairwell of a hospital; like Emily Gilbert, she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. In San Antonio four years ago, a 69-year-old man shot his 72-year-old brother to death in a nursing home. Last June a man in Miami put two bullets in the heart of his three-year-old daughter who lay comatose after a freak accident. An organization that studies mercy killings says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Quality of Mercy Killing | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Often the state must intervene in cases where abuse or neglect is suspected. Two-year-old Ana Marie seemed to be perpetually falling and hurting herself. "I didn't pay her enough attention," admits her mother Kim Adalid, 19, who also has a three-year-old son and expects a third child in January. After one of Ana Marie's mishaps, Kim took her daughter to a doctor, who quickly discovered that the child's arm was broken. Believing that the girl had been neglected (a charge that Kim vigorously denies), the doctor filed a report with the California courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Children Having Children | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Halfway through 1985, the nearly three-year-old economic recovery seemed about to end. Second-quarter growth in the gross national product was a slow 1.1%, compared with 3.7% in the previous period. But the low level of inflation, about 3.5% for the year, enabled the Federal Reserve Board to ease up on interest rates. "The Fed is riding to the rescue," Economist Walter Heller said in May. As a result, more credit began flowing to businesses. Between April and July, the prime rate fell by a point, to 9˝%, where it ended the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of Big Splashes | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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