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Recent claims of a successful human cloning have renewed interest in the scientific and ethical issues related to reproductive and research cloning. Diane talks with two scientists about cloning and some of the many related ethical questions.
Dr. John Gearhart, professor of medicine and director of the stem cell program at Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Leon Kass, fellow, the American Enterprise Institute and author of a new book, "Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity"
In his new memoir, best-selling novelist Pat Conroy writes about his senior year in college playing basketball for the Citadel. He talks with Diane about the lessons he learned from defeat, his troubled boyhood, and how he became a writer.
Pat Conroy, author