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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...
Horowitz, the son of parents who were both members of the Communist Party, is a former editor of Ramparts, a radical journal. In fact, he said that he had "committed treason" by publishing a encoded American document while working for Ramparts...
...diverting human residents of New York City. But their tortured bodies are beginning to fall apart. Alone in his apartment, a brilliant German Shepherd named Ludwig von Sacher reverts to dog behavior--scratches on the door, piles of feces on the rug--then recovers enough to write in his journal, "I am alone in the world, a ludicrous animal." So are they all alone, and so they die. This diminuendo is unnoticed, except by the journalist Pira, who notes that the attention of the busy world has drifted elsewhere...
Although the details of his experiment will not be available for public scrutiny until Thursday, when the results will appear in the scientific journal Nature, Dr. Ian Wilmut seems confident with the results of his experiment...
...certainly would not want to be involved in the project." Meanwhile, President Clinton provided a typically Beltway response: He asked for a commission to review the implications. Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslyn Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, will publish a report on the sheep cloning Thursday in the journal Nature. Previously, scientists had cloned less complex life forms, like tadpoles, but the tadpoles had never developed into frogs. In the sheep experiment, tissue was taken from the ewe's udder and cultivated in a lab, using a process that rendered the cells essentially dormant. They also took unfertilized sheep...