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NEW YORK (AP)—A Palestin ian man fired into a crowd of tourists on the observation deck of the Empire State Building on Sunday, killing (Hie person and wounding six others be fore fatally shooting himself in the head. Ali Abu Kamal, 69, died without regaining consciousness, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s press office said. His passport indicated he was from Ramallah, on Israel’s west bank, and he entered the United States on Christ mas Eve, Giuliani said. Witnesses said dozens of people— many of them foreign tourists—fled in panic toward stairways and eleva tors as the man sprayed bullets on the outdoor deck that surrounds a large, windowed room on the 86th floor. “I’ve never seen so much blood in my life,” said Belgian businessman Stef Nys, who said he saw die man shoot himself and fall. “The most scary part was when people started to panic.” The man muttered something about Egypt seconds before he began shooting, witnesses said. Police weren’t sure of the signifi cance of his remarks. A city police terrorist task force and FBI agents were investigating, Giuliani said. Po lice Commissioner Howard Safir said the gunman apparently acted alone. The victim killed was a 27-year old Danish musician visiting the Em pire State Building with an American friend from Connecticut, who was wounded, Giuliani said. The others wounded included a French couple from Verdum, whose 1 (^year-old daughter escaped injury; a 30-year-old Swiss man; an Argen tinian man, 52; and a man from the Bronx. One of the wounded men was shot in the head; others were Iras se riously hurt. Researchers done adult sheep; possibility open to copy humans NEW YORK (AP)—Researchers have cloned an adult mammal for the first time, an astonishing scientific landmark that raises the unsettling possibility of making copies of people. Scientists slipped genes from a 6 year-old ewe into unfertilized eggs and used them to try to create pregnancies in other sheep. The result: a lamb named Dolly, ban in July, that is a genetic copy of the ewe. The feat opens the door to cloning prized farm animals such as cattle, and should make it much easier to add or modify genes in livestock, experts said. It’s also scientifically stunning. Researchers used DNA from the ewe’s udder cells, proving that mature mam mal cells specialized for something other than reproduction could be used to regenerate an entire animal. Scientists had thought that was inpossible. Experts said the same technique might make it possible to clone hu mans, but emphasized that it would be unethical to try. “There is no clinical reason why you would do this. Why would you make another human being?” said Ian Wilmut, one of the scientists who cloned the sheep. “We think it would be ethically unacceptable and certainly would not want to be involved in that project.” Carl Feldbaum, president of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, added that cloning of humans should be prohibited by law. Before the new work, scientists had been able to take tissue from adult frogs and create genetically identical tadpoles. But the tadpoles never de veloped fully into frogs. f To do the sheep cloning, scientists took cells from the ewe’s udder tissue and cultivated than in a lab, using a treatment that made the cells essen tially dormant. They also took unfer tilized sheep eggs and removed the nucleus, the cells’ central control room that contains the genes. Then they put the udder cells to gether with the egg cells and used an electric current to make them fuse. The eggs, now equipped with a nucleus, grew into embryos as if they’d been fertilized. 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Keith Parker, sociology professor and director of African-American and African studies said African Ameri cans’ contributions to the Great Plains are often overlooked. “It is not covered and highlighted to the degree that other ethnic groups’ histories are taught, in part because at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, we have not had the vehicle to do it,” Parker said. “I think that’s changing with an aggressive African-American studies program.” The symposium at the Ramada Inn downtown was sponsored by African American and African studies at UNL. It was designed to give people an opportunity to reflect on themselves and expose people to topics they might not find in traditional textbooks, like Aaron Douglas, the buffalo soldiers and African agriculture, Parker said. The symposium highlighted speeches from historians and schol ars, like Bill Gwaltney, superintendent of Fort Laramie National Historical Site. “(He) did a superb job of talking about the buffalo soldiers during the opening session,” Parker said. Artist Aaron Douglas, a 1922 UNL graduate, was the focus of two sessions by Amy Kirschke, senior lecturer at Vanderbilt University, and David Driskell, professor of art at the Uni versity of Maryland at College Park. Douglas was perhaps best known for his works during the Harlem Renais sance. Along with the speakers, scholars presented research papers in African American studies to about 200 people who attended. The symposium was a success, Parker said, because of the attendance and the positive comments he re ceived. “(The success) says to me that what’s going cm at this university, in terms of African-American scholar ship, is because of our predecessors, like Aaron Douglas, who paved the way for us as role models to have a chance to blossom,” Parker said. “If they can do it, we can do it.” rv «| i Questions? Comments? Ask for the Nfthrakkfln A JStt'SSfiESXSL Editor Managing Editor Assoc. 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