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Word: orly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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If human cloning becomes possible--and since the birth of a sheep called Dolly, few doubt that it will be feasible to clone a person by 2025--even the link between sex organs and reproduction will be broken. You will then be able to take a cutting from your body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Be Still Need To Have Sex? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

We share this interest in infertile, social sex with a few other species: dolphins, bonobo apes and some birds. But even if sex is too good for human beings to give up, more and more people will abandon it as a means of reproduction. Many people born from in-vitro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Be Still Need To Have Sex? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning," said Aristotle Onassis, who should know. Or, as Henry Kissinger put it, "power is the great aphrodisiac." So where would humans--and human civilization--be without sex? Probably back with the aphids and dandelions, I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Be Still Need To Have Sex? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

If the past 2 million or 3 million years of human history are any guide, obesity is our unfortunate but inevitable fate. That's not to say there's any special secret to weight control. All it takes, as we've heard over and over, is a sensible diet and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Keep Getting Fatter? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

From about 2.5 million B.C. to, say, 100 years ago, the system worked fine. Only a tiny percentage of humans had unlimited access to food and no need to lift a finger on their own behalf. What happened to them? Picture Henry VIII. But over the past century or so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Keep Getting Fatter? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

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