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In the book, Rorvik claims that doctors have already created a human baby through cloning. Many scientists, however, believe that cloning--the re-creation of an organism from a single cell, yielding duplicates of the original organism--cannot yet be performed with human cells.

Author: By Alfred E. Jean, | Title: A Major Misunderstanding | 4/8/1978 | See Source »

Thus, as Begin returned home, Israelis were faced with several hard choices. These included whether and how to try to resume the stalled peace negotiations with Egypt, how to deal with what promised to be a redoubled threat against them from the Palestinian guerrillas, whether to reconsider their stand against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Hard Choices for Israel | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

Two unearned runs helped Harvard to its win over Jacksonville in a game in which the Crimson never trailed. The pitching began to come around, as Steve Baloff worked a strong seven innings, giving up four earned runs and striking out nine before yielding to Ron Stewart, who hurled a...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Batsmen Tan Foes in Florida | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

As of January 27, 12,201 applied for admission to the Class of '82, a substantial increase over last year's figure of 11,922, Fitzsimmons said. Of the applicants, 7792 are men and 4409 are women, yielding a male-to-female ratio of 1.77 to 1. Because of the...

Author: By Andrew S. Davidson, | Title: Women Applicants Yield Record Totals | 2/4/1978 | See Source »

TO THE ANCIENT GREEK DRAMATIST, the spoken word was a new-found tool with which images could be sculpted, ideas persuasively conveyed, and emotions rendered with vivid eloquence; to the visually-oriented modern film-maker, it is a pain in the ass. In movie versions of great poetic dramas, nervous...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: A Tragedy--but not a Total Loss | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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