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...disadvantages. With superior hand-eye coordination and leaping ability learned in childhood baseball and basketball games, Americans make fine goaltenders, agile and sure-handed around the net. Giorgio Chinaglia, the New York Cosmos high-scoring striker, has an adversary's appreciation of the U.S. talent: "There is a nucleus of goalkeepers that are not good-they're exceptional. They could play in Europe now." And Americans have translated the physical aggressiveness of football into near world-class skill on defense...
...scientists overwhelmingly reject the possibility, saying that the major barrier--inducing an egg fertilized with an implanted body cell nucleus to develop--could not yet be overcome. They say that since a frog was successfully cloned in the early '60s, researchers have been unable to clone a mouse, let alone a man. Jonathan Beckwith '57, professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the Medical School, voices a common objection to Rorvik's claim: "I'm sort of surprise that the barriers could have been overcome so quickly and without hearing about...
...snow-bound Crimson golf team will be escaping Cambridge over the spring break for those Elysian Fields of golf, the emerald fairways of Florida. The eight golfers embarking on the Southern sojourn look to be the nucleus of Harvard's strongest squad since the Crimson qualified for the NCAA tournament four years...
...speaking of the outfield, the loss of Dave Singleton, who played a gifted center field last season, to IBM or minor league baseball will not weaken the strong nucleus of returnees. Either converted pitcher Peter Bannish or junior Jim Peccerillo, back from a year off, should be Singleton's equal offensively and more than competent defensively...
Cloning is a procedure that transplants the nucleus of a donor cell into a fertile egg cell from which the nucleus has been removed, thereby creating an individual genetically identical to the donor. Scientists have successfully cloned frogs but have been unable to clone mammals...