When one thinks of cloning, as one so often does, Woody Allen's
1973 comedy "Sleeper" springs to mind. Allen plays a mild-
mannered health food store owner who's transported to the future
and enlisted to assassinate a dictator's disembodied nose before
its cells can be cloned to reproduce the tyrant in full-bodied
form. Hilarity ensued, of course. A steamroller was involved. It
wasn't pretty. And who can forget Dolly the sheep? She was the
first mammal successfully cloned in 1996 from an adult cell --
presumably not a nose, but who knows -- by scientists at the
Roslin Institute in Scotland. Dolly became world famous and
lived at the institute until her death in 2003, after which she
was stuffed and placed in Edinburgh's Royal Museum, where she
continues, presumably, to sit pretty. But now, thanks to modern
almost-real technology, neither sheep nor schnoz is necessary.
Now you can make your own homegrown clone. Or even better, clone
yourself into the spittin' image of someone else. And you don't
even need the s