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...unspoken message of these films was that a woman, especially a good woman, has to settle. Compromise was the minor key in a movie's final fanfare. Allyson lost out on a few good roles: Royal Wedding with her idol Astaire (because she was pregnant with her and Powell's child Ricky), Johnny Belinda and All About Eve (because MGM wouldn't loan her out to other studios...
Schober was suspended after being arrested and cited for carrying a small amount of marijuana and for being a minor in possession, according to The Globe. Bryant was suspended from the team for an undisclosed offense...
...hybrid cell into dividing like an embryo. Not surprisingly, the process doesn't always go right. "I call it a lottery," says Wilmut. "Even if you use the same method as consistently as you can, you may get some clones with severe abnormalities and some that have only minor ones...
...mammalian body is surprisingly forgiving and can often compensate for minor programming errors. That's why some genetic changes in clones may not have any measurable functional effects on the animals...
...fact that clones have defects--however minor--only bolsters the arguments that scientists have made against human cloning. Based on his studies of the faults introduced by reprogramming, Jaenisch, for one, thinks human cloning is now out of the question. "I think we cannot make human reproductive cloning safe," he says. "And it's not a technological issue. It's a biological barrier. The pattern of methylation of a normal embryo cannot be re-created consistently in cloning...