Clinton bans funds for cloning [
WASHINGTON (AP) - Declaring
the creation of life “a miracle that
reaches beyond laboratory science,”
President -Clinton on Tuesday barred
spending federal money on human
cloning.
He also urged a halt in private re
search until the ethical impact is bet
ter understood.
Clinton, warning against “trying
to play God,” directed all federal agen
cies not to allocate money for cloning
of human beings — although he ac
knowledged Tuesday that the govern
ment is not now funding such re
search.
“I just wanted to make sure that
we keep it that way,” he said.
Clinton said he decided to restrict
use of federal funds after learning that
researchers in Oregon had cloned two
rhesus monkeys from embryos—the
world’s first cloned primates and the
closest step yet to humans.
“Human cloning would have to
raise deep concerns, given our most
cherished concepts of faith and hu
manity,” Clinton said. “I believe we
must respect this profound gift and
resist the temptation to replicate our
selves.”
Current law prohibits spending
federal money cm human embryo ex
periments, but the prohibition expires
Sept 30. Sen. Christopher Bond, R
Mo., has urged Congress to make that
ban permanent.
Those restrictions did not explic
itly address cloned embryos, nor did
it apply to all federal agencies, so
Clinton moved to close that loophole.
“Science often moves faster than
our ability to understand its implica
tions,” Clinton said. “Any discovery
that touches upon human creation is
not simply a matter of scientific in
quiry. It is a matter of morality and
spirituality as well.”
Balanced-budget measure defeated
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a
stinging setback for Republicans, the
balanced-budget amendment to the
Constitution went down to narrow
defeat in the Senate.
The vote was 66-34, one shy of the
two-thirds majority needed to prevail.
It marked the third year in a row the
GOP had failed to muster the support
to pass a cornerstone of its conserva
tive agenda.
Republican frustration was evident
in the moments before the vote, when
GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch repeatedly ac
cused Democrats of “demagoguery”
when it came to Social Security.
All 55 Republicans and 11 Demo
crats voted for the amendment.
The measure would require a bal
anced budget by 2002 and every year
thereafter, unless three-fifths of the
House and Senate vote otherwise. Ex
ceptions could be made in cases of war
or other military conflict.
Passage by a two-thirds majority
was needed to send the measure to the
House, where the amendment has
stalled. Ratification by three-fourths
of the states would have added the
amendment to the Constitution.
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott
said in advance that “this is an issue
that will not go away.” He predicted
the House would vote cm the amend
ment in the next month or two, and
despite its apparent difficulties, he
forecast its approval there. Ifthe House
adopts it, he said, “we will take an
other lode at considering this issue.”
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Microsoft finds glitch
Flaw could allow
hacker to send e-mail
from another’s
account.
SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft
Corp. scrambled to fix a security
flaw in the company’s Internet Ex
plorer browser that could allow a
web site operator to secretly run
programs stored on someone’s per
sonal computer.
Although the company said it
had no customer reports of secu
rity breaches, a computer security
expert said the problem was “ex
tremely serious.”
“It is as if you allowed some
one to type on your computer and
you go out to lunch,” said Simson
Garfinkel, an author of Internet
security books and columnist for
HotWired magazine and the Bos
ton Globe.
The flaw could result in all sorts
of mischief, such as preventing an
other person’s computer from start
ing up or sending e-mail from an
other person’s account, Garfinkel
said.
Microsoft officials said Monday
they were testing a solution for the
problem and expected to have it
quickly posted to the company’s
site on the World Wide Web.
Microsoft learned of the flaw
Monday after it was discovered last
week by a student at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute in Worcester,
Mass.
The flaw involves basic func
tions found within Microsoft’s
Windows 95 and Windows NT op
erating systems.
When a PC user clicks on a
hyperlink on a web page, Balle ex
plained, a malicious web page cre
ator could have that link connect
to file known as a “shortcut” in
Windows 95 and NT. Shortcuts are
widely used to start computer pro
grams or functions.
If the “webmaster” for the web
page can guess the precise location
and code needed on the user’s com
puter, shortcuts on the web page
could surreptitiously “point to” and
start programs residing on the
user’s hard drive.
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