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Playing God Surely our growing knowledge of human genetics will lead to new treatments for disease and even to cures. But more controversial aims are in play. Scientists are close to screening human embryos for a wider range of congenital conditions; how long before we're selecting for intellect, optimism and ambition? Therapeutic cloning could yield versatile stem cells to replace diseased cells--if politics doesn...
...like Cindy Crawford and supermodel Vendela, Chaiken began creating a maternity version of its signature pants--with elastic in the waistband and an emphatic lack of ugly front pouches. Scouts at high-end department stores like Barneys New York heard about the designer's expanding waistlines and asked for wider production. "There was initially some trepidation," says Chaiken. "Other designers would say, 'Really, you're doing that?' A year later, a lot of them had also jumped in." This year 11% of Chaiken's spring-collection sales were maternity; for fall it was 15%. "Overall our sales are growing...
...arrangement may accommodate some of the concerns raised by the reluctant nations, the more important challenge the U.S. will face is the demand to begin ceding its political authority in Baghdad. UN member states are keenly aware that the current occupation is unpopular among Iraqis and in the wider Arab and Muslim world: Even the members of the IGC are unhappy about the open-ended nature of U.S.-British control. "Iraq is under occupation," current IGC president Ibrahim Jafari said on Wednesday. "We want to do all we can to reduce the time period for ending the occupation...
...Laden himself and Ayman al-Zawahiri. But the virus is already out there, and it is mutating. It's a relative certainty that many of the men whose faces appear on the Qaeda scorecard President Bush keeps in his top drawer have had their responsibilities delegated to a wider group of middle managers not necessarily known to allied intelligence agencies. Almost two years after 9/11, al-Qaeda has certainly suffered major organizational setbacks, but it has also been presented with new growth opportunities. The U.S. invasion of Iraq has enhanced support for al-Qaeda's worldview among many young Muslims...
...these ten decades. Early Buddhist art emphasized the religion’s major deities; Buddhas, bodhisattvas, arhats and human and animal guardians, whereas later Buddhist art, which evolved largely in East Asia and changed due to the Buddhist church’s becoming increasingly sectarian, accentuated on the a wider variety of subject matter and style. This ranges from the furious deities of the Esoteric tradition to moralistic paradise and hell scenes of the Pureland school to the simple ink play of Zen. Through January 4, 2004. Hours: Monday through Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday...