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...scientists are ever more willing to say yes, perhaps we can. Last month a well-known infertility specialist, Panayiotis Zavos of the University of Kentucky, announced that he and Italian researcher Severino Antinori, the man who almost seven years ago helped a 62-year-old woman give birth using donor eggs, were forming a consortium to produce the first human clone. Researchers in South Korea claim they have already created a cloned human embryo, though they destroyed it rather than implanting it in a surrogate mother to develop. Recent cover stories in Wired and the New York Times Magazine tracked...
...Given what researchers have learned since Dolly, no one thinks the mechanics of cloning are very hard: take a donor egg, suck out the nucleus, and hence the DNA, and fuse it with, say, a skin cell from the human being copied. Then, with the help of an electrical current, the reconstituted cell should begin growing into a genetic duplicate. "It's inevitable that someone will try and someone will succeed," predicts Delores Lamb, an infertility expert at Baylor University in Texas. The consensus among biotechnology specialists is that within a few years?some scientists believe a few months...
Just as women have long been able to have children without a male sexual partner, through artificial insemination, men could potentially become dads alone: replace the DNA from a donor egg with one's own and then recruit a surrogate mother to carry the child. Some gay-rights advocates even argue that should sexual preference prove to have a biological basis, and should genetic screening lead to terminations of gay embryos, homosexuals would have an obligation to produce gay children through cloning...
...largest U.N. agency and the leading agency working against hunger, Bertini is responsible for both raising resources from donor countries and "making sure food gets to the right people at the right time and is accounted for." She is the first American and the first woman to head the WFP, now responsible for feeding nearly 90 million people each year, mostly in disaster zones like Ethiopia, Somalia and India...
Bernd Kaess, a German who was Bertini's chief of staff for 3 1/2 years, credits her with making the WFP known and appreciated by donor countries. Under her tenure the operating budget dipped from $1.6 billion to $1.2 billion, but is now nearly $1.9 billion, an all-time high. "She found the money," Kaess says, "and she put WFP on the map." Kaess also credits Bertini with decentralizing the WFP. Says he: "If we were in El Salvador 24 hours after the earthquake, that was because of decentralization." More than 80% of the WFP's 6,000 employees work...