Abstract

Editorials

The article presents information on various social and political developments around the world. Washington wrangles over an independent counsel and Senator Fred Thompson's Congressional investigation, but the debate is steeped in cynicism. Republicans favor an independent counsel because that would likely leave the Grand Old Party's own money hustle unscrutinized. Thompson, despite some imbalance in his investigation so far, has at least promised a wide-ranging inquiry into bipartisan campaign finance abuses; but the result has been bipartisan strangulation. On February 22, the cloning of mammals stopped being science fiction and became science. The newspapers that day reported that Ian Wilmut, an embryologist in Edinburgh, had cloned a sheep named Dolly.