As a senior editor for Time magazine, Nancy Gibbs had a very busy year in 2000. According to Managing Editor James Kelly, "she wrote nine cover stories...on presidential politics ("The Story of 2001," Time, Feb. 19, 2001, Vol. 157 no. 7). He goes on to say that Gibbs "has an extraordinary talent for exploring topics where ethics, religion, politics and science intersect." Her talents led him to ask her to write the cover story for the February 19 issue concerning human cloning. About that article, Gibbs said, "'Our journalists spent time with people for whom cloning represents their last hope--infertile couples who have tried every other means of having a genetically related child, grieving parents who see in this research a chance to retrieve some essential part of someone they lost. We're not looking to judge them so much as to understand them, understand why there is a strong and growing market for cloning technology and no shortage of scientists looking to capitalize on it.'"

Yale University

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Oxford University

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Time.com

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