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Soundbites

7 June 2006

“Their performance is one thing that will make people feel warm and fuzzy about cloning.”

Kenneth White, a Utah State University professor who cloned the world’s first racing horses. Idaho Gem and Idaho Star finished third and seventh respectively in an eight-horse race at the 20th annual Winnemucca Mule Races, Show & Draft Horse Challenge (, 5 June)

“It is the worst thing that a doctor could possibly do.”

Joy Phumaphi, assistant director-general of the World Health Organization, criticising the practice of genital cutting, traditionally performed on girls in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. The WHO last…

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