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Shutup and quickly outlaw cloning of human beings.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 19970225
Author:Grady, Sandy

WASHINGTON _ In Aldous Huxley's chilling novel ``Brave New World,'' the superstate clones an army of faceless workers and stamps them with numbers. They're human robots who never gripe, never ask for a raise.

Suddenly that cheerless new world doesn't sound like sci-fi fantasy. You wake up, the 21st century is here, and it's scary.

When Scottish scientists revealed they'd used cells from adult sheep to produce an identical lamb they named Dolly, they made the next, mind-blowing step almost inevitable _ the cloning of human beings.

Hello, Dolly. Goodbye, sex. ...

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