Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just reproduce a twin) but another soul's chance at your life. Every parent tries to endow his child with the wisdom of his own hard-earned experience. Here is the opportunity to pour all the accumulated learning of your life back into a new you, to raise your exact biological double, to guide your very flesh through a second existence...
...create a frisky lamb named Dolly (with apologies to Ms. Parton), scoring an advance in reproductive technology as unsettling as it was startling. Unlike offspring produced in the usual fashion, Dolly does not merely take after her biological mother. She is a carbon copy, a laboratory counterfeit so exact that she is in essence her mother's identical twin...
...laboratory of the big-city hospital. As always, the list of people seeking the lab's services is a long one--and, as always, it's a varied one. Over here are the Midwestern parents who have flown in specially to see if the lab can make them an exact copy of their six-year-old daughter, recently found to be suffering from leukemia so aggressive that only a bone-marrow transplant can save her. The problem is finding a compatible donor. If, by reproductive happenstance, the girl had been born an identical twin, her matching sister could have produced...
Myself? I chose five. A single clone might take a dislike to me--and then what? Besides, if I wanted just one kid, why not go out and have one the normal way? The whole point of this procedure was to have lots of exact genetic copies of me--to create a flock of worshipful children who would love me as much as I'd enjoy watching them worship...
...government had breached an agreement with Palestinians who had expected to receive no less than 30 percent of West Bank land in the first of three troop redeployments expected to start this week. They claim that the Israelis have violated the agreement by not consulting with them on the exact specifics of redeployment. The Israeli government counters that, according to their interpretation of the terms of the deal, it is up to Isra el alone to decide when, where and how much. The whole process is in danger of bogging down over such details, and as it does, it continues...