Word: cloning
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...price of oil begins to fall, critics predict Chávez's radical influence will too. Some analysts believe that Mexico's leftist candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, narrowly lost the recent presidential race in large part because his conservative opponent painted him as a Chávez clone. The same thing happened a month earlier in presidential elections in Peru...
...pajamas from a bed shared with Al Franken (back when she still thought of herself as a Republican), she launched a website that, on its first day, was dubbed "the movie equivalent of Gigli, Ishtar and Heaven's Gate rolled into one. In magazine terms, it's the disastrous clone of Tina Brown's Talk, JFK Jr.'s George or Maer Roshan's Radar." She showed the naysayers on that one - the Huffington Post has become a wildly popular must-read (her reporting on the Plame case and struggles inside the New York Times newsroom incited its own name...
Since Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk fell from grace last year over his now-discredited work on human cloning, he has been stripped of his position at Seoul National University and currently faces trial on charges of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the donors who sponsored his work. At last week's hearing, Hwang explained that while some of the cash may have found its way into extracurricular projects, "all of the money was used for the purpose of research." Besides paying for one scientist's wedding and another's housing, that research agenda apparently included attempts...
...phone is not a RAZR clone. It's just as slim and, like the hot Samsung a900 Blade for Sprint, it owes much of its appeal to Motorola's revolutionary handset. But a clone is an imitation, often a pale one. My instinct is that what Motorola started with the RAZR, other companies mean to finish. The CU500 - the first phone to tap into Cingular's new "High-Speed Downlink Packet Access" (HSDPA) network - is next in a stream of upcoming slim and powerful cell phones...
...developed at an early age. The other was shortened telomeres in her cells. Telomeres are bits of DNA that sit at the ends of chromosomes and serve as a biological clock chronicling a cell's age. In general, the shorter the telomeres, the older the cell. Dolly, a clone of a 6-year-old ewe, had cells whose telomeres were closer in length to those of her biological mother than to those of a baby lamb. We will never know, though, whether her shortened telomeres would have shortened her life. In 2003 Wilmut and his team decided to put Dolly...