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Should China try to clone pandas so they don't go extinct?

They are soft, furry and all but extinct. Today there are only about 1,000 pandas left in the world. A few dozen are in zoos. And, as more of China's wilderness disappears, so do more of the pandas. Add to that, male pandas have a notoriously low interest in mating. The Chinese badly need a solution. So they bypassed the natural way of reproduction, and went for artificial insemination. But it's not working well enough, or fast enough; so the Chinese are taking what they hope will be a radical great leap forward for panda survival -- cloning. Scientists have implanted a cloned panda into the womb of a cat, but the cat soon died. Other experiments are going on in a process so controversial that nervous officials wouldn't allow them to be filmed...

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