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Pandora's Baby ( Preview )

In vitro fertilization was once considered by some to be a threat to our very humanity. Cloning inspires similar fears

By Robin Marantz Henig   

 
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On July 25, a once unique person will turn 25.



This nursery school aide in the west of England seems like an average young woman, a quiet, shy blonde who enjoys an occasional round of darts at the neighborhood pub. But Louise Brown's birth was greeted by newspaper headlines calling her the "baby of the century." Brown was the world's first test tube baby.

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