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What a concept: Farmers cloning their best milk cows and ranchers replicating their best wool producers. Why not clone our best laborers so we can produce a group of subhuman slaves? And how about fighting our wars with literally thousands of Rambo-like killing machines? If they are wiped out, no loss--we can just make more! Maybe, eventually, we can use cloning to create a whole new race of superpeople with a pure conformity of mind and body. God have mercy on us all! STEVE BLACK Dallas...
...benefits of cloning technology may be great, but the potential for misuse is beyond frightening. How long before every petty dictator, multimillionaire industrialist, king, queen and drug lord has a clone or two made of himself or herself, then raised in confinement, so that when a heart, lung or kidney gives out, a spare is just a phone call away? How much further will this cheapen human life? STEVE GONTO Savannah, Georgia...
...mentioned cell biologist Ursula Goodenough's quip that if cloning were perfected, "there'd be no need for men." If your article had been written by Jorge Luis Borges, Annie Proulx, Thomas Pynchon or another author with a penchant for serendipitous character names, I'd know for certain that "Goodenough" was herself a clone. JONATHAN BRENNER BALKIND London...
Myself? I chose five. A single clone might take a dislike to me--and then what? Besides, if I wanted just one kid, why not go out and have one the normal way? The whole point of this procedure was to have lots of exact genetic copies of me--to create a flock of worshipful children who would love me as much as I'd enjoy watching them worship...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND wrote the short story Clone, Clone on the Range for us with less than three days' notice--a particularly tight deadline for a novelist. The subject matter, however, sparked his creativity, and he produced his satirical tale well ahead of schedule. "Massive scientific ruptures like this one are so rare and powerful and alluring," says Coupland, whose previous books, including Generation X and Microserfs, often explored science issues. "A good jolt is good for the brain, and the news is so jolting--it's a good match." As for the technology, Coupland says, since...