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...People who want to clone their DNA so they can have a Mini-Me running around need to have their head examined." CHERYL ROTH Sugar Grove...
...mother of a five-year-old who died from leukemia. A clone of my son created from a lock of his hair would never make it possible for me to forget that he is gone forever. STEPHANIE WOLF Memphis, Tenn...
...released B movie. It was the scene Friday at a press conference held by controversial scientists Panayiotis Zavos, Severino Antinori and Ali Ben Abraham. Surrounded by crowds of journalists and photographers, the men announced to a packed hall in Rome, Italy, that they were poised to begin a human cloning project. The team, which has already received messages of interest from 700 infertile couples, hopes to produce a successful clone in the next two years. Clones, the most famous of which remains Dolly the sheep, are created when an adult cell is merged with an egg cell, the genes...
...Antinori, Ben Abraham and Zavos are modern-day rebels, even in the sometimes eccentric field of cloning. Antinori is also part of a team that says it will create its first human clone in 2002. Zavos, quoted above, is a well-known fixture in the world of cloning research; he and Antinori have long advocated human cloning as "the logical next step" in reproductive science, insisting the practice will provide new hope for couples who have been unable to have children. Friday, Antinori was particularly voluble when asked to defend the pending project against ethical and scientific concerns...
...best alternatives could be the most legally vulnerable. Take Aimster, the Napster clone that relies on AOL's ever popular instant-messaging software. Download it (from Aimster.com) and you'll get an unseen extra layer to your buddy list, called a Buddyizer. This means that theoretically you can trade your MP3s with some 60 million "buddies." Hey, presto: an instant Napster-size network. As a bonus, Aimster currently searches Napster as well. "People already have thousands of MP3 files on AOL. All we did was add a search function," says Johnny Deep (his real name), 43, a software engineer...