Article: Foes see Dr. Frankenstein; patients adore `Dr. Miracle'.(A)

Byline: Robert Stacy McCain

The Italian doctor who plans to be the first to clone human beings doesn't look like a mad scientist.

Dr. Severino Antinori, a bespectacled man with gray hair and a bushy mustache, looks nothing like the Hollywood vision of Dr. Frankenstein insanely toiling in his lab to create life.

But this mild-looking 56-year-old father of two, called "Dr. Miracle" by his adoring patients, has been compared to Hitler and accused of playing God by his critics.

Dr. Antinori, an acknowledged pioneer in the field of in vitro fertilization (IVF), gained international notoriety in 1993 when his treatment enabled a ...

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