Word: cloned
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...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...
Hwang also takes care to avoid off-putting words such as cloning or therapeutic cloning, preferring instead to call his process nuclear transfer. He doesn't want anyone to confuse his work with reproductive cloning, which he deems "unsafe and unethical." He thinks cloning fully grown humans may be biologically impossible, given the many miscarriages and genetic anomalies that have bedeviled attempts to clone animals, and he doesn't like giving people the impression that therapies or treatment will be available anytime soon...
...back to the drawing board. There are many models they could use—a completely free curriculum like Brown, a great books program à la Columbia, or a system of several large divisions from which students must sample courses like at Yale. But Harvard is not a clone of any other institution and should not adopt some other school’s system. Instead of looking outward, the committee should look at which courses work best here and build from those examples...
...He’s older in his work habits,” says Gaudrault. “He’s kind of a clone of his father—very conscious of the job he is doing and not afraid to do extra...