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...Researchers at George Washington University clone human embryos and nurture them in vitro for several days...
...Scottish researchers clone a sheep named Dolly from cells of an adult...
...event, he seemed as surprised as anyone else that his modest and eerily simple experiment, conducted with limited funding, should have as much impact on our sense of what it is to be human as anything since Adam and Eve. Wilmut wanted to use his cloning technology to improve livestock. "I think we should trust the farmers," he said. Any experimentation with humans, he believed, should be kept strictly at the level of cells and proteins. It would be ethically unacceptable, he said, to use his technique to create a human clone...
That, however, was the very thing that caught the world's imagination. Human cloning! The stuff of science fiction seemed about to become reality. Even before other labs had confirmed Wilmut's discovery, a Harvard-trained physicist named Richard Seed proclaimed his intention to clone humans for commercial purposes. Cloning, he declared grandiosely, was "the first serious step toward becoming one with...
...next year, Dartboard will barely have the time to hiccup after our exams end. Do the math: seven days this year, two days next year. Eloquently put, it sucks--and we've seen it before. Intersession 2000 will actually be a genetically and administrationally engineered clone of the two-day wonder that was Intersession 1998. Even at a four-year college, institutional memory isn't that short...