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...called up nightmare visions of baby farming, of clones cannibalized for spare parts. Policymakers pointed to the vacuum in U.S. bioethical leadership. Critics decried the commercialization of fertility technology, and protesters took to the streets, calling for an immediate ban on human-embryo cloning. Scientists steeled themselves against a backlash they feared would obstruct a promising field of research -- and close off options to the infertile couples the original experiment had intended to serve...
...fact, Hall and Stillman were totally taken aback by the furor they created. TIME correspondent Ann Blackman asked Hall if he feared that his work would create a backlash against this kind of research. "I revere human life," said Hall, his voice choking with emotion. "I respect people's concerns and feelings. But we have not created human life or destroyed human life in this experiment." To Hall and Stillman, human cloning is simply the next step in the logical progression that started with in-vitro fertilization and is driven by a desire to relieve human suffering -- in this case...
...backlash against Wal-Mart and other discount retailers...
...million, Moet & Chandon, the largest producer, announced last May that 245 employees would be laid off for economic reasons -- the first time in living memory that the industry had shrunk its work force. Then, in June, Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, which owns Moet, announced 457 layoffs. An employee backlash has since forced the producers to rethink their cost-cutting strategy, and a regional labor court ruled in August that employees cannot be fired summarily. But the pressure to reduce costs is still...
While Patten's speech contained considerable bluff, it also reflected growing irritation in London and Washington with Beijing's toughened posture on a variety of issues ranging from Hong Kong's future to human rights to nuclear proliferation. U.S. National Security Adviser Anthony Lake recently described China as a "backlash," or antidemocratic, state like Iran, Iraq or Chile under General Augusto Pinochet. So concerned is the Clinton Administration with the deteriorating relationship that Secretary of State Warren Christopher has launched a high-level effort to turn things around, beginning with the dispatch to Beijing this week of John Shattuck...