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...write they will, as Congress returns to wrestle with where to erect the guardrails around new reproductive technologies. There is a near consensus for outlawing what the Raelians claim to be doing--cloning one person's cells in order to grow a genetic replica--on the grounds that the risks are too great and the moral costs too high. But so far, no national ban has been passed because a fierce debate still surrounds other forms of research that borrow some of the same techniques. Supporters of "therapeutic cloning," in which embryos are cloned to harvest their stem cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abducting The Cloning Debate | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

...York, not in British cities where the archetypal bobby goes unarmed. But the Jan. 2 shootings and the gun-crime statistics don't surprise those who live in Britain's inner cities, where drug gangs, particularly Jamaican dealers, protect their multimillion pound profits with weapons ranging from replica pistols and modified air guns to lethal Uzi submachine guns. Jasper says guns, many smuggled in from the Balkans, are easily bought or rented, and that while the gangs are often homegrown, top killers, or "shottas," are sometimes flown in from Jamaica to carry out assassinations. Although Britain's inner cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bullets over Britain | 1/12/2003 | See Source »

...sales and what's spent on books (500 have been published), DVDs and tchotchkes (Trek ornaments are always among Hallmark's top holiday sellers). Paramount claims merchandise sales have exceeded $4 billion over Trek's lifetime; 470 people have actually paid $5,000 apiece for a life-size replica of the villain Locutus. The newer series haven't done as well as Star Trek: The Next Generation, but last year TNN reportedly paid $364 million for the rights to show reruns of various Trek episodes, even though they have already been aired dozens of times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Star Trek Inc. | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

...sales and what's spent on books (500 have been published), DVDs and tchotchkes (Trek ornaments are always among Hallmark's top holiday sellers). Paramount claims merchandise sales have exceeded $4 billion over Trek's lifetime; 470 people have actually paid $5,000 apiece for a life-size replica of the villain Locutus. The newer series haven't done as well as Star Trek: The Next Generation, but last year U.S. cable channel tnn reportedly paid $364 million for the rights to show reruns of various Trek episodes, even though they have already been aired dozens of times. With their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Trek Inc. | 12/15/2002 | See Source »

...most of them are careful to steer clear of the H-bomb. Even online, it seems that acquiring the Harvard lambskin is a difficult task. Harvard diplomas can be purchased at Fakediplomas.com for a mere $39.95, but it seems unlikely that a PDF file could make for a convincing replica...

Author: By Brandon C. Presser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Degrees R Us | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

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