He comes to this country to go into business with a couple of friends from the neighborhood. And loses his entire stake within a few weeks. He gets the idea that his Palestinian friends swindled him, so he buys a gun and goes to the Empire State Building, where he proceeds to shoot a bunch of people, none of them Palestinians. They cloned that sheep the other day, which was a silly thing. The real question is whether they'll be able to do it with humans and if this means we'll be knee deep in Ross Perots, Donald Trumps and George Steinbrenners.
Scientists say no.
As a matter of fact, ever since word came from Scotland that they'd produced a sheep that was a genetic duplicate of another sheep, scientists have been popping out of doorways and button-holing people on the street, telling them not to worry about it. Cloning people is a whole different thing from cloning sheep, they say. And anyway, it would be unethical to mess around with humans like that and scientists wouldn't do it. But before I get to that, I'd like to say a few words in memory of Deng Xiaoping, of whom we were speaking a few paragraphs back. I saw him up close once, in Washington.