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...unreconstructed Massachusetts liberal, and then if he claims to be a centrist by citing his past statements challenging affirmative action and teacher tenure and promoting free trade, he'll be back in the Waffle House. But maybe voters won't care much. The only perfectly consistent man, Aldous Huxley mordantly noted, is a dead one, and we've yet to elect one of those. --Reported by Matthew Cooper, John F. Dickerson and Karen Tumulty/Washington
...hasn't quite turned out that way. Cloning has been emerging gradually, over the past decade, in small increments. Each advance has been startling enough, prompting ethical debates, cautionary references to Aldous Huxley's brave new world and calls for restrictive legislation. But there have been so many milestones, starting even before the birth of Dolly the sheep in 1996, that each one seems a little less startling than the one before. Sometimes an advance is so subtle that it sounds just like the breakthrough that made headlines the year before...
...rare commentator who avoided any mention of Aldous Huxley. Some warned of baby farms and assembly lines of fetuses grown in test tubes, of rich women renting poor women's wombs to avoid the inconvenience of pregnancy. But fear was no match for dreams for thousands of infertile couples: "I would hope that within a very few years ... this will be a fairly commonplace affair," said Robert Edwards, one of the doctors. Louise is now 24, and 1 million babies later, that prophecy has come true. --By Nancy Gibbs
...hour battle, two fighters were killed and one, an Uzbek teen, was captured; 32 others escaped. Soldiers found a cache of heavy arms including rocket-propelled grenades before the compound was razed to the ground. MEANWHILE Peace Pills In a finding reminiscent of the happy drug soma in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, U.K. researchers have discovered that maximum-security prisoners given pills containing vitamins, minerals and fatty acids committed 37% fewer disciplinary offences than inmates who popped placebos...
...DIED. OSCAR JANIGER, 83, psychiatrist whose experiences on LSD inspired him to become one of the first Americans to study psychedelic drugs in the 1950s and early '60s; in Torrance, California. To examine the link between LSD and creativity he tested the drug on 1,000 volunteers, including Aldous Huxley, Cary Grant and Jack Nicholson. DIED. PETER MAAS, 72, best-selling author of true-life Mafia and police crime novels The Valachi Papers and Serpico, which were made into successful movies starring Charles Bronson and Al Pacino, respectively; in New York City. When Maas received $400,000 for the film...