Word: sheeps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest issues being debated since a scientist successfully cloned a sheep is human cloning. People have been pondering whether cloning human beings is ethical, and, recently, President Clinton placed a ban on further experiments involving human cloning. "Human life is sacred, "he declared. Of course it is. It baffles me that there is so little respect for individual life that people are challenging Clinton...
...justifiably question whether human cloning is ethical, few seem to question whether the cloning of animals, or the further experiments on animals that will likely follow the cloning, are ethical. Why do we consider human lives sacred and animal lives to be scientific machines? The lives of monkeys and sheep are as sacred to them as ours are to us. When will we incorporate a reverence for all sentient life into our scientific method? --Katja B. Hrones...
...enough when Scottish researchers cloned a sheep named Dolly and commentators started writing about virgin births and Frankenstein. But then one week later, researchers at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center let it be known that they had cloned a pair of rhesus monkeys, named Neti (for nuclear embryo transfer infant) and Ditto, that squinted in the glare of the TV lights and clung to each other for dear life...
...fact that Neti and Ditto were not so much a step toward a brave new world as a diversion. They were produced from embryos, which makes them clones only in the way that identical twins or triplets are clones. The same technique has already been used with sheep, cattle, rabbits, pigs and even humans--although in the last case the embryonic clones were destroyed. What makes Dolly special is that she was cloned from an adult sheep, not from an embryo. She is the only mammal ever born that is identical to her biological mother...
Freedom vs. Fear of the Unknown: A Senate hearing room fell silent today as Senator Tom Harkin reflected with quiet passion on the furor surrounding the notion of human cloning. Dr. Ian Wilmut, who produced the cloned sheep Dolly, had told the panel that human cloning should not be all owed, since so many deformed and unviable clones would be produced in order to succeed. Comparing the eager bipartisan opposition to human cloning research to the 17th Century persecution of Galileo for his observation that the Earth revolves around the Sun, Harkin said it was wrong of President Clinton...