Word: cloning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much likes the idea of thawing out one of the clone kids to harvest its organs, but according to Andrew Kimbrell, author of The Human Body Shop, in the past few years an estimated 50 to 100 couples have produced babies to provide tissue for an existing child. Plus there is already a thriving market in Third World kidneys and eyes. Is growing your own really so much worse than plundering the bodies of the poor? Or maybe we'll just clone for the fun of it. If you like a movie scene, you can rewind the tape, so when...
Many of Time's poll questions bordered on the silly: "Would you like to have been a clone?"(Eighty-six percent said no.) In one of Newsweek's related stories, titled "How Will the Clone Feel?", an ethicist waxes metaphysical: "What would it mean if I ran into one of me in the grocery store some day? What makes...
When cattle cloning is perfected, it may not be welcomed down on the farm. Idaho dairyman Kurt Alberti, for instance, isn't so sure he wants to clone the offspring of prizewinning cows like his Twinkie, even though she was the American Jersey Cattle Club's top milk producer last year and her calves fetch handsome prices on the auction block. Using cloning to create large numbers of identical calves runs counter to what breeders strive to do. Alberti wants to create cows even better than Twinkie, and the only way to do that is by constantly reshuffling the genetic...
COVER: To Clone or Not to Clone...
Agribusiness: They clone cows, don't they...