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...open a commercial cloning clinic in the Chicago area, the world reacted with stunned surprise. President Clinton blasted the idea as "untested and unsafe and morally unacceptable." Experts questioned whether the 69-year-old physicist was capable of carrying out such an ambitious undertaking. Said University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan: "He has as much chance of cloning a human as my Uncle Morty does...
Senior Kevin Johnson, junior Kenneth Hughes and Freshman Arthur Fergusson also won events for Harvard...
...helped, of course, that he was a pretty common man himself. Born Usher (later changed to Arthur) Fellig in 1899, Weegee was the son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. He dropped out of high school, then moved out of his parents' Lower East Side apartment in New York City while still in his teens, spending some time homeless, scuttling through public parks, shelters and menial jobs, all the while hoping for regular work in a photo studio--an ambition he picked up while working as an assistant to an itinerant street photographer. Depending on which story you believe, his nickname...
...warmth with TIME editors at dinner at his rambling ranch house. Sitting around the table was Intel's past, present and future: Grove's wife Eva, who fell in love with him when he was working as a busboy; Gordon Moore, Intel's first CEO and Grove's mentor; Arthur Rock, the venture capitalist who underwrote the company in 1968; and Craig Barrett, Intel's president, who will probably succeed Grove...
...sufficiently advanced technology," wrote Arthur C. Clarke in the early 1960s, "is indistinguishable from magic." One lesson of our Man of the Year's life is that while technology lets us produce ever more astounding machines, it has little to say about how we might use them. For that we rely on the likes of Andy Grove. What Intel's chairman has inside is magic...