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...post-human future” that would arrive once “The Clones” are loosed upon us. As one vocal supporter prophesied, “once embryonic clones are produced in laboratories, the eugenic revolution will have begun.” Other concerns are more basic, and some are even flippant—would a woman’s clone be legally classified as her daughter or her twin? What would happen to the clone of Michael Jordan if he prefers the cello to the court...
...penalty Americans; there are people in the U.S. who think [the Kyoto protocol on global warming] was a great thing." Antony Blinken, a staff member on Bill Clinton's National Security Council, points out that it wasn't that long ago that Europeans and Americans had serious disagreements over basic matters--like the modernization of nuclear arsenals in Europe. After the cold war and the triumph of global capitalism, he says, we live in a period marked by the "narcissism of small differences...
...friends, old or new, Bush would have had to do something dramatically awful for his trip to be marked a failure. He didn't. Indeed, so low were the expectations of him among parts of the European media that merely by showing up and speaking English--never mind the basic Spanish that he used when visiting Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar in Madrid--he would have been judged a resounding success. He sailed over that low bar. From the U.S. standpoint, the week's only truly sour note had nothing to do with the President's performance. It came, rather...
...DRAGON'S BASIC INSTINCT...
...Despite the culture clash, the partners hammered out the basic framework for the venture at their first formal meeting, a whirlwind visit by Legend's top executives to AOL's Dulles, Virginia headquarters in June 2000. They decided almost immediately that it would be an equal partnership, according to Legend CEO Yang Yuanqing. (To comply with current China law, Legend will have a 51% stake.) The partners also quickly agreed on a business model that would combine Legend's hardware and AOL's Internet services. "There were problems throughout the negotiations," concedes Yang. "But from the beginning, both sides...