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Dolly, the clone, is an epochal--a cataclysmic--creature. Not because of the technology that produced it. Transferring nuclei has been done a hundred times. But because of the science. Dolly is living proof that an adult cell can revert to embryonic stage and produce a full new being. This was not supposed to happen...
...course, the potential for evil is infinitely greater. But there will be no stopping that either. Ban human cloning in America, as in England, and it will develop on some island of Dr. Moreau. The possibilities are as endless as they are ghastly: human hybrids, clone armies, slave hatcheries, "delta" and "epsilon" sub-beings out of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World...
...cross that biological barrier, they ensured that others would follow. And although the Roslin researchers had to struggle for more than 10 years to achieve their breakthrough, it took political and religious leaders around the world no time at all to grasp its import: if scientists can clone sheep, they can probably clone people...
...Smaller games like 'Tetris' are challenging and a lot more addictive in the long run," Condit says, nothing that the sheer number of "Tetris" clone games are evidence of the game's staying power and irresistible charm...
When Dr. Ian Wilmut published his recent research in a British scientific journal, he gave the world pause. Every forum from the CNN Web page to the late night FOX show, "Politically Incorrect," was buzzing about Dolly the now famous lamb clone that catapulted Wilmut into the spotlight...