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Part of poetry is learning how to speak.

Chili Billy.

I am also a horse.

I really value my life, even though I know it's debatable whether I'm even really alive.

The right reading for this is the one I'm giving it.

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From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

The quest for synthetic humans.

Hello again, I'm Arminolny, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

Dolly the Sheep was cloned in 1996, but no human being has ever been duplicated.

Now there's the possibility of creating a human from scratch.

Genetic scientists have already mapped the human genome, opening the possibility of eliminating

disease.

A Harvard geneticist is raising money to manufacture a human genome with the potential of

creating a synthetic person who has no parents.

We'll talk with him and others, including fellow scientists, who raise ethical and religious

objections that he's going too far, too fast. Today's talking point, Russia's track and field

team is banned from the Rio Olympics. First, here's the news.

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