Word: cloning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...measure of Clinton's fortitude that he is even within striking distance. His equanimity in the face of charges that have driven others to retirement is almost superhuman. But here he is, the nominee, able to peruse a long list of vice-presidential possibilities before deciding to clone himself -- and to find an even better, or at least less hobbled, version of himself at that. But for a certain arrogance and a definite slickness, Al Gore is Clinton without flaws, the first expression of Clinton's second chance...
...seeds, specimens or drugs derived from plants and animals -- go to whoever finds a way to exploit them. Vanilla, for example, was a biological resource found only in Central America. It later became an important cash crop in Madagascar. Now a U.S. biotech company has developed a process to clone the vanilla flavor in a cell culture. If the firm sells the bioengineered version for less than natural vanilla and takes some of the market share, who will compensate the Madagascar farmers? Or the Central American Indians from whose lands the genetic material originated...
Never mind the artifice. Never mind that Tritt calls his songs "country music with a rock-'n'-roll attitude," or that Ken Kragin, one of the country's key managers, calls Brooks "to some extent a George Strait clone . . . kind of a cheerleader running around onstage, whipping up enthusiasm." Forget all that and remember Willie Nelson's observation: "It doesn't matter to a real music fan whether the guy has on a hat or not. The real talent, when it gets an audience, will show through...
...Green brings back three EIBL First-Teamers. Riding the arm of pitcher Bob Bennett (according to one scout, a "Ron Darling clone") Dartmouth should be a contender...
...clone big blocks of DNA. I look for and try to understand specific regions that cause disease," Kunkel says. "I'm targeting a particular part of the genome that might be therapeutically treated in certain individuals...