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...Frist, who heads up the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the group in charge of returning the Senate to the GOP in 2002, closely monitors how folks in his state (and in other states with Republican senators) are reacting to the shrinking surplus. He knows it will be a favorite topic in attacks from across the aisle, but stands firm in his message. "The Democrats clearly are going to use it," he told me. "Our commitment is to balance the budget and to fuel the economy. The way you can do that is with...
...launched TIME archive. The online archive goes back to 1985 and contains the full text of the more than 25,000 TIME stories that have appeared over the past 16 years. An easy-to-use search function allows you to pinpoint quickly the most relevant TIME article on any topic...
...archive is a wonderful place for students to do some fast research. The archive's Student Center makes searching especially quick by offering a list of frequently researched topics, along with the best TIME articles on each subject. So, you have to write a 20-page term paper on cloning? The archive's Student Center has the topic covered. Cautionary note to 11th-graders: plagiarism occurs when you don't put someone else's prose in quotation marks...
Cyber review sites vary in how they are organized. On large ones like Amazon or Epinions, visitors are invited to weigh in on the goods displayed there. At more focused operations, such as the Internet Movie Database or RollingStone.com contributors think out loud about one topic, like movies or music. And then there are the lemonade stands of cyberspace, personal Web pages where just one person--JoeytheFilmGeek, say, or the Flick Filosopher--issues opinion for anybody who happens to stop...
...cells. "I regard it as a deeply vexing and serious moral question," he told the New York Times. Daniel Callahan, a colleague who attended the July Oval Office meeting, says he does not recall Kass's coming down one way or the other. "He seemed somewhat ambivalent on the topic," says Callahan. In one of his anticloning articles, however, Kass appears to oppose embryonic research in general. "By pouring our resources into adult stem-cell research," he writes, "...we can avoid the morally and legally vexing issues in embryo research...