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...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 born prematurely and died (the third triplet was removed early on to improve chances for the remaining two), critics have suggested that cloning...
South African President Thabo Mbeki had resisted developing a national plan to provide antiretroviral drugs and even questioned the link between HIV and AIDS . What brought him around? There was always in South Africa - including in the government - people who really wanted to do something. I understood how President Mbeki got to where...
...with visiting friends and family. After a taste of complimentary Prosecco, Italy's gently sparkling white wine, Tempio's affable owner Francesco Tripodi arrives at the table to list the evening's market-fresh offerings in rapid-fire, Calabrian-accented Italian. When it's clear that diners haven't understood a word, he grins and intones: "Do ? You ? Like ? Fish?" Respond with a simple "Si!" and you're in for the best seafood meal of your life. The antipasto course is an unmatched sampling of underwater delights. There's carpaccio of swordfish, salmon or sea bass, flavored with olive...
...After a taste of complimentary Prosecco, Italy's gently sparkling white wine, Tempio's affable owner Francesco Tripodi arrives at the table to list the evening's market-fresh offerings in rapid-fire, Calabrian-accented Italian. When it's clear that diners haven't understood a word, he grins and intones: "Do ... You ... Like ... Fish?" Respond with a simple "Si!" and you're in for the best seafood meal of your life...
...well. The Peruvians in Chile are not the rich or the powerful or the white, but the indigenous women who come to serve as maids in upper class Chilean households. With this understanding of who “Peruvians” are to white Chileans, it is implicitly understood among their group why such a name would be so insulting...