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What has some doctors and ethicists upset is that this so-called nuclear-transfer technique has also been used to produce clones, starting with Dolly the sheep. The only significant difference is that with cloning, the inserted nucleus comes from a single, usually adult, cell, and the resulting offspring is genetically identical to the parent. Doing that with humans is ethically repugnant to many. Besides, for reasons that aren't yet well understood, cloned animals often abort spontaneously or are born with defects; Dolly died very young, though she had seemed healthy. And because the Chinese woman's twins were...
...under 80) from talking publicly about the matter. Still, as a frail John Paul II celebrated the 25th anniversary of his papacy last week, a quiet campaign for the post seems well under way, and an early--and active--front runner is the Archbishop of Milan, Dionigi Tettamanzi. His transfer a year ago from the helm of the Genoa Archdiocese to the world's largest one, in Milan, was akin to winning a party's nomination. "He's a natural candidate," says longtime Vatican watcher Luigi Accattoli of Italy's leading daily Corriere della Sera. Tettamanzi, 69, stands...
...Winger has tried to transfer some of her own fame to Rothenberg’s memoir. The day after her “Today Show” plug, she says, several book chains sold out of Breathing for a Living...
...says Daniel H. Lassiter ’04. The same obstacles affect students with major extracurricular commitments. “The Quad is just too inconvenient,” says Ivona Josipovic ’06, who, after just five weeks in the Quad, has decided to transfer to the river as soon as possible. “I’m heavily involved in extracurriculars. When my schedule is particularly crazy, I sometimes sleep over [at the river...
...encourages a tight-knit, somewhat insular community. “To us, it’s weird that people live at the river. Being here is normal,” says Lassiter. “With some teams going up there and being charismatic, people want to transfer to the Quad,” Dingman says. “It happens more than you think...