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LICENSED TO THRILL A core group of familiar characters is skipping from one entertainment platform to another--TV, video and the big screen. Here Comes Clifford (Artisan Entertainment), featuring the big red dog, is great for kids starting to appreciate narrative. Arthur Goes to Hollywood (Sony Wonder), which skewers celebrity, is a wonderful re-creation of the way kids speak and interact...
...Chosen as Arthur Okun Distinguished Fellow in Economics, Globalization and Governance at the Brookings Institution...
...Taryn Arthur...
...This kind of talk makes ethicists conclude that even people who think they know about cloning?let alone the rest of us?don't fully understand its implications. Cloning, notes ethicist Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania, "can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them, it will be faint consolation to the dead one that the other one is still running around, even though they are genetically identical. So the road to immortality is not through cloning...
...much influence will Taylor have in Washington? Some say he may be to Bush what supply-sider Arthur Laffer was to Reagan. One key meeting to watch is the weekly get-together between Greenspan and Treasury chief Paul O'Neill. If Taylor starts showing up more regularly than, say, Deputy Secretary nominee Kenneth Dam, it may be a sign that the Administration is sending Greenspan a message. Or just a hint of Taylor's own ambitions. "There's no question," said one ex-Clinton official last week, "that this guy is talked about as a future Fed Chairman himself...