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Article: Painful lessons of pet cloning.(COMMENTARY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 15, 2002
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Byline: Randy Burkholder, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
"The dog of your boyhood," Mississippi author Willie Morris said, "teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love and death."
My pure-bred beagle, which in a moment of unparalleled inspiration I named "Beagle," died chasing an orange VW Bug when I was 9. His sudden passing taught me lessons I still carry with me today.
But never mind all that. Soon we can spare our children this calamity - and deny them the lessons that come with it. The clever scientists at Texas A&M University have succeeded for the first time in human history (and I don't use the term lightly) in cloning a cat, ...