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...nearly empty plane to Pyongyang, the capital of mysterious North Korea, and the only other passengers are a nuclear nonproliferation expert and a foreign-aid donor. What...
...fuse it with, say, a skin cell from the human being copied. Then, with the help of an electrical current, the reconstituted cell should begin growing into a genetic duplicate. "It's inevitable that someone will try and someone will succeed," predicts Delores Lamb, an infertility expert at Baylor University. The consensus among biotechnology specialists is that within a few years--some scientists believe a few months--the news will break of the birth of the first human clone...
...Trying to block one line of research could impede another and so reduce the chances of finding cures for ailments such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, cancer and heart disease. Were some shocking breakthrough in human cloning to cause "an overcompensatory response by legislators," says Rockefeller University cloning expert Tony Perry, "that could be disastrous. At some point, it will potentially cost lives." So we are left with choices and trade-offs and a need to think through whether it is this technology that alarms us or just certain ways of using...
...never met a human worth cloning," says cloning expert Mark Westhusin from the cramped confines of his lab at Texas A&M University. "It's a stupid endeavor." That's an interesting choice of adjective, coming from a man who has spent millions of dollars trying to clone a 13-year-old dog named Missy. So far, he and his team have not succeeded, though they have cloned two calves and expect to clone a cat soon. They just might succeed in cloning Missy this spring--or perhaps not for another five years. It seems the reproductive system...
...other hand, Asia expert Courtis saw little hope for Japan. The Tokyo government still seemed committed to spending its way into recovery, even though all the evidence decreed that pump priming wasn't a viable solution. "In the past 30 months, they spent $1.4 trillion, and they got a little growth," Courtis observed. "If you spend the equivalent of the gross national product of France and only get 2% growth, there have to be some real problems." A big one associated with the spending policy is that Japanese government debt by the end of 2001 will amount to around...