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BEST PUNCH: In one episode an army of Homer clones wreaks havoc on Springfield. The dumbest clone is Peter Griffin, Homer's counterpart from Family Guy--a not-so-subtle jab at the fellow Fox show...
What Merrick doesn't count on is the clones developing minds of their own. Well, not exactly minds--more like trace memories borrowed from the people they are doubling for. But you know how it is: you get to remembering, and then you get to thinking. It's sort of the same way with romance. Cute guy (Ewan McGregor) and pretty girl (Scarlett Johansson) start making eyes at each other, escape to the fully populated, slightly dystopian real world and, sure enough, find time amid the car chases and explosions to start fooling around. There are other trace elements...
...Cloned human beings are merely a science-fiction fantasy. I can assure you that on this globe, you'll never bump into a cloned human being, at least within 100 years." HWANG WOO SUK, South Korean scientist who last year was the first to clone a human embryo, on the state of the controversial technology...
...Coke and wear Nike, we can't help but lose some of our cultural identity. Foreign companies don't care what happens to China; they just want to make a quick buck. It's up to Chinese people to be responsible consumers. Otherwise, our country will turn into a clone of America. Does the world really need that? Angela Lai Shenzhen, China...
...pressure is building in the farmland for the FDA to lift its informal moratorium. Some 300 beef cows, 150 dairy cows, 200 pigs and several score of sheep and goats have been cloned in the U.S. Since no one is monitoring the situation, meat from their offspring may well have started trickling onto the market. "There's a lot of pent-up volume," says Scott Davis, founder of ViaGen, a biotech company based in Austin, Texas, that charges $15,000 to clone a cow and $4,000 for a pig. "A clone has to be bred...