Even opponents of cloning probably agree that the Weldon bill passed in July by the U.S. House of Representatives is extreme. It not only bans federal support for human cloning but criminalizes the activity and prohibits traffic in any products or services arising from it. It deliberately makes no distinction between reproductive cloning (aimed at producing new people) and therapeutic cloning (aimed at creating cell lines for medical treatments). The bill sends a message: "No human cloning, ever."

Cloning technology is highly inefficient; cloned cells show puzzling irregularities; a cloned child would be raised in a psychologically murky environment. For all those reasons, responsible biologists agree with putting off reproductive cloning for the good of the clones. But they plead that therapeutic cloning is too promising to discard blindly.

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1. 1. Eric KANSAS 08:24 AM 12/27/07

   I am writing about the article on fluoride the Jan. 08 issue I understand fluoride is a byproduct aluminum exraction and was a waste product that the aluminum industry that was going to cost money to dispose of the fluoride so they got the idea of water fluoridation to offset the waste dispoal cost. I have read numerous articles in medical journals on the link to Alzheimers and other dementia disorders linked to metals and the possiability of fluoride causing the body to absorb this metal in the brain. there was no mention in the article on these studies.i know the article can not cover the whole problems of fluoride ingestion but would like to here from yuor staff or unbiased readers on the subject.

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