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The benefits of rushing to attempt human cloning are far harder to see. So it is clear what the goal of regulation and legislation ought to be: to buy us the time to ensure the safety and proper oversight of human-cloning work. Put a moratorium of a few years on any effort to create a human being by means of cloning

Richard Seed, the retired physicist who scared the nation to death earlier this month with his talk of creating a brave new biological world, has inadvertently become the poster boy for regulating cloning

Finally, the Food and Drug Administration has approved an emergency contraception kit, using the same pills now used for birth control. The kit -- marketed by Gynetics Inc., of Somerville, N.J. - - has a pregnancy test that a woman must use first since, if she is already pregnant, emergency contraception will do nothing to change that. But if she is not yet pregnant, emergency contraception will cut the chance of becoming pregnant after unprotected sexual intercourse from 8 percent to 2 percent

Granted, when the subject is the love life of a president, a British princess or an underage prostitute on one of the TV tabloid shows, we cannot shut up. But that is talk about strangers whose habits, peccadilloes and moral failings have no immediate bearing on what we do in our own bedrooms. When the conversation turns to our own sex lives, to the sexuality of our spouses, children and siblings, we have much less to say

Americans have a very difficult time dealing with sex. Granted, when the subject is the love life of a president, a British princess or an underage prostitute on one of the TV tabloid shows, we cannot shut up. But that is talk about strangers whose habits, peccadilloes and moral failings have no immediate bearing on what we do in our own bedrooms. When the conversation turns to our own sex lives, to the sexuality of our spouses, children and siblings, we have much less to say