1.   Some reporter got wind of the institute and the cloning experiment and tracked him down.

2.   As a first step, the antiabortion lobby this fall will try to extend the existing ban on federal funds for human embryo research to prohibit human cloning experiments.

3.   At a White House event where he asked for a voluntary ban on human cloning experiments, President Clinton stood next to his vice president and defended him.

4.   Bond introduced a bill last year to ban use of federal funds on cloning experiments.

5.   A battle in Congress over whether scientists should be able to conduct cloning experiments is pitting medical research groups against abortion foes.

6.   A Massachusetts company, Advanced Cell Technology, has said it intends to conduct therapeutic cloning experiments to produce stem cells that may be used to treat disease.

7.   A young biologist uncovers a cloning experiment conducted by an egomaniacal scientist.

8.   Britain expressly permits and regulates therapeutic cloning experiments but forbids human cloning.

9.   But they determined the controversial company used federal money only for animal cloning experiments not human cloning, thus complying with the law.

10.   California and a handful of other states stepped in to plug this perceived loophole by passing laws that make human cloning experiments, even by private parties, illegal.