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To: Poet who wrote (318)	12/30/2002 11:21:44 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 603

Even in the best case, it will not be an EXACT copy of the original, because there is something called mitochondrial DNA that comes from the egg donor (because it is free floating in the cell and not in the nucleus whose DNA is destroyed). Just like Dolly was not an exact copy of the sheep that was cloned... Still, this is proof that research into cloning cannot be stopped by conservative religious mania. When was the last time prohibiting an area of science ever stopped scientists developing it anyway?

To: Poet who wrote (318)	12/30/2002 6:33:33 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 603

A Lost Eloquence nytimes.com [ I wouldn't make any bets on the genetic tests. Flying the baby at 3 days is very weird, but these seem to be very weird people in general. Anyway, on your favorite eponymous subject, in case you missed it, this was in the op-ed section of the Sunday paper. Clip: ] For those who love poetry, the recent announcement that Ruth Lilly had donated about $100 million to Poetry magazine was a welcome boost. But to me the most illuminating aspect of this extraordinary news was not the size of the gift, but rather a subsequent revelation that the journal gets roughly 90,000 submissions a year yet its circulation peaks at just 10,000. Literary magazine editors have pondered this kind of awkward imbalance for some time. It seems there are a lot of would-be poets out there. But it seems that many are writers who write without reading. And the power of reciting in order to share a poem or to comfort oneself with its words, seems almost unknown.