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Article: Final Bows: This was the year we said goodbye to Bob, Kate, a guy in a sweater we'll always miss, a guy in epaulets who overstayed his welcome and a certain 6-year-old who was never born.
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- December 29, 2003
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DOLLY, 6
Not since Noah's Ark has so much ridden on the fate of a single ewe. In 1996, when Scottish doctors created a baby sheep named Dolly from the cells of an adult, she became the first-ever successfully cloned mammal. Her--well, not birth--her emergence also sparked a fierce debate about ethics, biology and playing God. She died at 6--half the life expectancy for her species. But Dolly's doctors insisted her death was unrelated to the fact that she was a freak of nature--or of whatever. She simply caught a virus she couldn't shake, and had to be euthanized.
BOB HOPE, 100
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