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...that you don't know what you are getting. With adult-cell cloning, you can wait to see how well an individual turns out before deciding whether to clone it. Cloning also has the potential to make genetic engineering more efficient. Once you produce an animal with a desired trait--a pig with a human immune system, perhaps--you could make as many copies as you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AGE OF CLONING | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...intrigued by these incidences and the phenomenon that they exhibit. Is competitive drive a trait that inherently cannot be selectively applied? Is it impossible to rein in our classroom instincts? I do not believe so. Rather, Harvard students seem to have made a collective choice. We view it as safer to maintain a cut-throat edge at all times and so we have permanently locked ourselves into a defensive posture. Lowering our guard might mean certain death, or worse, a lower slot on the curve...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: On Guard | 2/26/1997 | See Source »

...bottle of Scotch and tried to figure out the most bizarre ending to this family they could," says William Murray, Madalyn O'Hair's estranged older son, the one who converted to Christianity, "whatever really happened was probably more bizarre than that." Hyperbole is a Murray-O'Hair family trait, but the assessment is not totally astray. One day in August 1995, Madalyn, then 76, along with Jon, 40, and Robin, 30, vanished from the house on Greystone Drive, reportedly with breakfast still cooking, and were never seen again. Tax returns filed by groups affiliated with American Atheists suggest that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE'S MADALYN? | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...wasn't the first time that Ho had overturned conventional wisdom. During the past 15 years, he has demonstrated an uncanny ability to ask questions that seem obvious only in retrospect and to probe key issues others have overlooked. It's a trait that does not endear him to some of his rivals. A few have accused Ho of being a publicity seeker who is giving AIDS patients false hope. Upon examination, however, most of the accusations appear to spring from professional jealousy. "David is the type of individual whom I feel particularly good about when he achieves success," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DR. DAVID HO: THE DISEASE DETECTIVE | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...Republican National Committee for Haley Barbour. Reed had to be persuaded that Dole would let the campaign manager actually manage the campaign. By the time Dole locked up the nomination, every member of the original family except Coe was history, replaced by professionals chosen by Reed. They shared one trait: greater loyalty to their careers than to the candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASTERS OF THE MESSAGE | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

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