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Still, it was a good year to clone sheep, but pictures of the identical woolly faces of Scotland's Dolly whipped up a public panic of their own. President Clinton leaped to the task of devising cloning regulations, and Congress held hearings. Public imaginations abetted public nerves as one envisioned an NBA populated by Michael Jordans, a music world consisting of multiple John Teshes, and sheep of the ideological variety. Meanwhile, at the other end of the barnyard, the discovery of mad-cow disease (a more colorful, thus emotionally agitating term than bovine spongiform encephalopathy) had real men ordering sushi...
...Woodward the only person who could have injured baby Matthew? Could the baby's father or mother have been responsible for his death? And what about Matty's older brother Brendan, now 3? Could something have happened if the baby had been left alone with Brendan? NANCY RAFTERY Bathgate, Scotland...
...same Qaddafi honored by Mandela has refused to hand over the two Libyan men suspected of carrying out the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which resulted in the deaths of 270 people. The same Qaddafi leads a country which is on our state department's list of terrorist-sponsoring regimes...
...showcase and celebrate "the richness of our South African culture" in a format that might easily be understood by the rest of the world. Msomi's epiphany came when he realized that the political background of Macbeth-- the half-mythologized atmosphere of the warring clans of medieval Scotland--was eerily similar to that of the birth of the Zulu nation, united out of many warring tribes under the great 19th-century leader Shaka Zulu. Moreover, Shaka's life was oddly parallel with that of Macbeth: a diviner prophesied in his youth that Shaka would become a "chief of chiefs...
...Suspicions were aroused since the South African leader just came from Britain, and is always professing his desire to mediate in the Lockerbie stalemate ? the argument over whether the Libyan suspects should be tried in Scotland or a neutral country...