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Some people are worried that it has already gone too far. Conservationists knew that a few wolves would inevitably wander off the grounds of the park, find their way to farms and attack livestock; since 1995, seven head of cattle and 84 sheep have been killed this way. The Defenders of Wildlife set up a fund to compensate owners for their losses, and to date the group has paid out more than $21,000. But money isn't the only issue. "There's also the stress of not knowing if wolves are in the area and when they'll strike...
Last year Dolly the cloned sheep was received with wonder, titters and some vague apprehension. Last week the announcement by a Chicago physicist that he is assembling a team to produce the first human clone occasioned yet another wave of Brave New World anxiety. But the scariest news of all--and largely overlooked--comes from two obscure labs, at the University of Texas and at the University of Bath. During the past four years, one group created headless mice; the other, headless tadpoles...
...Sept. 19, 1783, at Versailles, the first aeronauts--a sheep, a rooster and a duck--take to the sky in the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloon. On Nov. 21, Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes drift over Paris in a Montgolfier, achieving the first manned free flight (2). Asked what good are balloons, U.S. envoy Ben Franklin replies, "What good is a newborn baby?" The English Channel is crossed in 1785, and ballooning soon becomes the stuff of daredevils (3). But in 1794 the world's first air force is born: warring France uses tethered balloons...
Scots clone a sheep...
...Best-Known Clone Embryologist Ian Wilmut made a big splash in the gene pool when he announced that he had cloned a sheep named Dolly. Though animals had been duplicated before, Dolly was the first ever created from an adult cell rather than an embryonic one, raising the specter that a human will one day follow in her hoofsteps...