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Human cloning, the asexual reproduction of genetic carbon copies, raises similar questions. Who shall be cloned, and why? Great scientists? Composers? Statesmen? When Geneticist Hermann J. Muller first broached the idea of sperm banks in Out of the Night (1935), he suggested Lenin as a sperm donor. In later editions, Lenin was conspicuously absent, replaced on Muller's list by Leonardo da Vinci, Descartes, Pasteur, Lincoln and Einstein. Society could well be as fickle?or worse?about cloning. It might create a caste of subservient workers, as in 1984, or a breed of super-warriors out of a "genetics race...
...behind French and German lines and hired other dashing young reporters for the News, including his brother Edgar and Raymond Gram Swing, later radio's calm oracle. Mowrer covered the Versailles Treaty talks and the Riff war in Spanish Morocco, became adviser and go-between for diplomats and statesmen. He won the first Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence in 1928, returned home to become editor of the News for nine years...
...command-we appointed a new head of the intelligence services-to stop tapping our telephones. He was our appointee, and he tried very hard but he couldn't do it. And so then he told me something I didn't know, and I don't think most people, statesmen and politicians, knew, that in fact the Greek intelligence services were financed directly and administered directly by the CIA, so that there was just no hope that we could do anything. I brought this to the Cabinet. It was an important issue-and then it was the decision of the Prime...
...Kuan Yew, 47, Prime Minister of Singapore. One of Asia's most articulate statesmen, Lee is usually dismissed-and rules himself out-on the grounds that he is too much a man of action for the U.N.'s brand of turtle-race diplomacy. In addition, Lee may be too anti-Communist for the job. Nevertheless, his name is often mentioned...
DEMOCRATS According to the conventional script and timetable, this is the period in which the out party's presidential aspirants try to sound like statesmen in public while maneuvering for support and money in private. Senator George McGovern has decided to write his own scenario by declaring his candidacy for the Democratic nomination this week-thereby becoming the earliest self-certified contender in recent memory...