<HTML>For anyone who didn't read it .... that page at the Drudge Report changes daily ......... so here's the text .............
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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SAT AUG 04, 2001 18:21:35 ET XXXXX
200 WOMEN TO BE IMPREGNATED WITH 'CLONED EMBRYOS'
A twenty-first century shock announcement is set to be made at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington this week: Up to 200 women will soon be impregnated with cloned embryos in the world's first attempt to produce a human clone!
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The test, planned for November, possibly on a boat in international waters to avoid political interference, will use a technique similar to that developed to produce Dolly the sheep.
Up to 200 couples from several countries, including eight from Britain, were being selected for the cloning project, according to a report planned for publication on Sunday in Europe.
Italian embryologist Severino Antinori -- whose Rome clinic enabled a 62-year-old woman to have a baby in 1994 -- is planning to make the stunning announcement in the Nation's Capital. Antinori's team for the cloning drills consists of 20 international specialists.
NO AMERICANS IN TEST
No Americans will take part in the test, according to insiders familiar with the cloning plans.
White House sources warned that Antinori will not be permitted to impregnate any of the women within U.S. borders.
The announcement is expected to ignite an explosive debate about the ethics and safety of human cloning.
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Btw.... for those not in the USA ... the Drudge report was started by Matt Drudge ..... if I recall the beginnings correctly he was fired or laid off a news team and decided to open his own news site online .... he has become powerful enough that so far since he's been online two Presidents have cussed him in private ......... and there's been only two since he's been online ..... ~lol~
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