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...Dozoretz's involvement in a pardon discussion was not in itself remarkable. What investigators want to know is whether her fund-raising work for the Clinton presidential library had any connection to the pardon. Sources tell TIME that Dozoretz raised $450,000 from Denise Rich for the library. Its donor list is not public, and though Rich is not thought to be among the biggest givers, sources say her first gift of $250,000 was a significant early step in the fund-raising process...
Last week Rich took the Fifth. Next week the House Government Reform Committee plans to subpoena her bank records. Investigators will try to determine if her ex-husband wired funds into her account for any Clinton causes. The committee also plans to subpoena donor lists for the Clinton library, and will seek a meeting with Dozoretz to learn more about her role...
...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. The consensus among biotechnology specialists is that within a few years--some scientists believe a few months--the news will...
...Raelian sect. They say they are willing to try to clone a dead child. Though their outfit is easy to mock, they may be even further along than the competition, in part because they have an advantage over other teams. A formidable obstacle to human cloning is that donor eggs are a rare commodity, as are potential surrogate mothers, and the Raelians claim to have a supply of both...