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...reached, the Atlantic has been crossed and recrossed, and the eagle has landed. So why not do it in a balloon? Well, what can you say about a pastime whose first passengers were, in an experiment by the French Montgolfier brothers in 1783, a duck, a rooster and a sheep? No wonder Piccard has a complex. "The way the public sees it is this," he explained before lift-off. "If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our mission, we are incompetent. But if we do succeed, it's because...
...communist island said it would let the Breitling Orbiter 3 gas and hot air balloon pass over its airspace today en route to a world record. Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Britain's Brian Jones--the latest heirs of an aeronautical tradition that began in 1783 when a sheep, a duck and a rooster first went up in a Montgolfier balloon at Versailles France--are planning to land in North Africa on Saturday, and become the first men to circumnavigate the globe nonstop in a balloon. The Breitling, which headed south and then east from Switzerland on March 1, raced...
...conference, titled "Genetic Technology and Society," was hosted jointly by MIT and Harvard and featured as its keynote speaker the scientists who set off the recent cloning controversy by creating Dolly the sheep...
Wilmut said positive aspects of cloning could include creating pigs with organs more acceptable to human bodies for transplants and using sheep to study cystic fibrosis...
...course, you are setting out to make the sheep ill to study the disease," Wilmut said. "This is acceptable provided that the animal gets the same treatment a human [with the disease] would...