Word: sheeps
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Some people are worried that it has already gone too far. Conservationists knew that a few wolves would inevitably wander off the grounds of the park, find their way to farms and attack livestock; since 1995, seven head of cattle and 84 sheep have been killed this way. The Defenders of Wildlife set up a fund to compensate owners for their losses, and to date the group has paid out more than $21,000. But money isn't the only issue. "There's also the stress of not knowing if wolves are in the area and when they'll strike...
Scots clone a sheep...
...smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" This year, out of a research institute in Scotland, a lamb named Dolly came roaring similarly existential questions. For Dolly was a clone, and her doubling had a fearful symmetry of a different kind: If sheep could be cloned, could humans be far behind...
This year's list of nominees was typically eclectic. Should we honor the Scottish embryologist Ian Wilmut and his immortal cloned sheep Dolly? What about Tiger Woods' thrilling 350-yd. drives into history? Or Alan Greenspan's steady-on-the-tiller stewardship of America's ongoing economic boom? Or--of course--the life and death of Diana, Princess of Wales...
...Best-Known Clone Embryologist Ian Wilmut made a big splash in the gene pool when he announced that he had cloned a sheep named Dolly. Though animals had been duplicated before, Dolly was the first ever created from an adult cell rather than an embryonic one, raising the specter that a human will one day follow in her hoofsteps...