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Industry enthusiasts say bioengineered animals and plants could become commercially available within the next five years. First, however, they must pass muster with federal regulators. That may be tricky, given the concerns raised by some environmental and animal-rights groups. Protests have already greeted the likely approval by the U.S...
Eager to reassure I.O.C. members who felt the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics had gone too far in commercializing the Games, the committee liked to stress the city's appeal as a symbol of racial harmony. Now comes the tricky part: making room for both Coca-Cola and the spirit of...
In December 1986 Larry Mizel held a glitzy black-tie New Year's Eve party for his staff that was dubbed "resurrection night." Milken had raised more than $500 million for M.D.C. that year by floating a junk issue; a series of tricky swaps of land and debt with Silverado...
The Times Mirror study notes that the young audience has "buoyed the popularity of the new, lighter media forms," such as People magazine and TV's A Current Affair. The survey may give news executives a further excuse to soften and glitz up their products to try to woo the...
Moreover, he believes, quantum gravity could be behind consciousness itself. The argument is tricky, but one reason for this belief is that consciousness carries with it a peculiarity that baffles physics: humans perceive time as moving forward rather than backward. But virtually all the laws of physics are time symmetric...