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...great job under very difficult circumstances." Lott's weekend call for Starr to accelerate the long-running Whitewater investigation brought a quick "What were you thinking?" conversation with Newt Gingrich -- and today's charge that the President is stonewalling and trying to smear Starr's reputation. Later, Arlen Specter and Fred Thompson hit the Sunday talk shows to say that Starr should be given all the time he needed...
...vestibule of this new millennium continues to have intruders that TIME tries to wrestle into moral and historical context. The digital age, for example, has brought not only the excitement of more democratic forms of media but also the specter of invasions of our privacy and the spread of false information and poisonous ideas to every nook of a networked world. The impending biotech age promises not only the ability to engineer an end to diseases but also the weird prospects of cloning our bodies and tinkering with the genes of our children...
...anyone who knew influenza, the news instantly raised the specter of 1918. Or worse, as this was a purely avian virus against which most humans would have no defense. The world, moreover, was far more densely populated, and high-speed travel now linked all the major cities. In 1918, when transportation was still painfully slow, the pandemic circled the globe in a matter of months. Traveling by jet, a new killer virus could reach Tokyo in three hours and New York City within...
...purposeful creation of human bodies without heads would be viewed as repugnant by society, which would not allow it. I believe that while it may be possible to "rationalize" headless humans as a simple combination of separate organs, in our hearts we would still find it unacceptable. The phony specter of headless humans is being used to convince the public that cloning should be banned, even if its purpose is to make cells rather than people. If this view succeeds, future generations will be denied the very real benefits that cloning technology could provide. LEE M SILVER Professor Department...
Leslie S. Goldberg, a professional collegeconsultant in Hingham, says that between twootherwise equal schools, the specter of paying offloans after graduation could push high schoolseniors to a school offering more grants...