Word: cloning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into last week's ceremony, several graduate students stood outside. To most who attended, they handed a "Bio-Buck"--a facsimile of a dollar bill decorated by caricatures of three Harvard scientists known for their lucrative outside work. Surrounding the sketches was the bill's motto: "Hell, I'd clone my grandmother to make a buck...
...Connor shares with Rehnquist more than a Stanford background; both are Republicans from Arizona who have Barry Goldwater's favor. Nonetheless, legal scholars doubt that O'Connor will become a clone of the court's leading conservative. They do not expect a pair of "Arizona twins" to develop and to hang together any more consistently than have the now-splintered "Minnesota twins," Burger and Blackmun. Broadly speaking, the court now has two liberals, Brennan and Marshall, in a standoff facing two conservatives, Rehnquist and Burger. The decisions thus often depend on how the other so-called fluid...
...first mercenaries stalked by a mysterious killer. (In Alien it was a mutating monster; here it is a dangerous drug.) Mix them together with the plot from the old Gary Cooper western High Noon and you have the formula for this summer's big-budget sci fi-horror clone...
Some variation of the Illmensee-Hoppe technique may one day be used to clone prize bulls or even human beings...
...other scientists question the ethics, as well as the scientific use, of trying to clone humans from undifferentiated cell masses. Whatever the original genetic imprint, the results would not be predictable, and mistakes would be stamped indelibly not on mice but on men. -By John S. DeMott...