Word: dealing
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...twin sister?--probably had some fetal cells circulating in her bloodstream, and that one of these fetal cells could conceivably have found its way into the laboratory culture from which Dolly sprang. Cloning an embryo from a fetal cell, of course, would not be as big a deal. What made the Dolly experiment so extraordinary was that Wilmut had managed to get the DNA of an adult cell to revert to its early embryonic state, opening the door to the cloning of a cell from full-grown human, say, a Michael Jordan or a Bill Gates...
...citizen long a resident in Europe, I find it impossible to understand what has happened to the cherished American principles of justice and due process of law [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 9]. The "independent" counsel has spent several years and $30 million investigating a two-bit real-estate deal and has extended the "investigation" to include the President's private life. Whether you like him or not, Clinton is a U.S. citizen and should be entitled to protection, not persecution, under the law. STERLING DOUGHTY Adliswil, Switzerland...
...meat from the spam. Last week a start-up called Goto offered the perfect capitalistic solution: goto.com the search engine that ranks sites by what they're willing to fork over. If Chrysler pays Goto more than Ford, it'll pop up first when you hunt for a good deal on a new car. And because smut sites are too cheap (or popular) to pay for promotion, you won't see Pamela Lee. Unless, of course...
...blessed event, Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital announced that a baby born there in December came from an embryo frozen four months longer. The next day, N.Y.U. Medical Center in New York City said it had successfully transferred an embryo frozen for more than eight years. "It's no big deal," said Dr. Alan DeCherney, UCLA's chief of obstetrics and gynecology, who noted that because fertility clinics have been working with frozen human embryos since 1984, other physicians may well have transferred even older ones without making a fuss...
...YORK: Squabbles over diplo-speak and "automaticity" are quickly diluting a U.S.-backed resolution to punish Iraq if Saddam breaks last week's deal with Kofi Annan...