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...into an unfertilized egg to grow a new animal (human or otherwise). Even the cells that slough off your gums when you brush your teeth could be used to make a whole new person. Of course, the most virulent opponents of cloning will not soon want to ban tooth-brushing. But they insist that the potential for life must be protected and oppose cloning human embryos for research purposes, even if the DNA comes not from a sperm and an egg but from an everyday skin cell. The potential for life found in normal skin cells, however, is of less...
...status as a person makes an outright ban on research cloning the only logical option. By voting for a moratorium, the members of the committee sidestepped the crucial issues surrounding the potential for life. If the cloning opponents had been consistent, they would have called for a moratorium on tooth brushing as well...
...noise and pollution of town. The room is dark and intimate, and the tables small; each is graced with potted herbs in lieu of flowers. The menu is simple: design-your-own salads and crepes, which makes a nice change from pita and hummus. For those with a sweet tooth, the nutella crepe is divine and the Black Forest cake oozes with caramel and chocolate. English and Jordanian Arabic is spoken here, as this is a popular destination for locals and expats alike. Don't plan to stop in on your way somewhere else. Service is slow?the better...
...thinks a competitor might beat him to a hot new product. And Lafley is sleeping pretty well these days. The soft-spoken, silver-thatched CEO is leading consumer-products giant Procter & Gamble from one hit to another. Crest's battery-powered SpinBrush for dental care and its Whitestrips for tooth brightening have helped Crest global sales grow 50% in the past two years--a surge unheard of for such a big, mature brand. That kind of innovation has sent P&G's profits into double-digit growth and made the company the best performer on the Dow Jones this year...
...tryst with one Mrs. Janet Buxton, he apostrophizes: "Oh, what hath headboards and Hemingway wrought!" (I give up: what hath pine and Papa wrought?) And in a reverie on his double hernia, Meyer writes: "Cause: hunkeringly / horizontal / hyper-activity about / atop ?Castle on Mulholland's' slick-sick sheets (lacking tooth)." Translation into English - anyone? Anyone...