Talking to the scientists involved in research into cloning and you will find that most of them, with the exception of a few well publicised mavericks who frankly stand no chance of achieving their aims, are vehemently against cloning live humans.

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They know that without him at the helm they stand no better chance and probably a worse one of winning some of the favours that they have been seeking as a reward for giving him support.

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Also, former dopers such as rider David Millar and Armstrong's former teammate Jonathan Vaughters, who now runs his own professional team, are working to change the culture which led them all to think they had no choice but to cheat to stand a chance.

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His nightly practices at the riverbank took place less often and he stopped going out to the waterfall, so I no longer had a chance to act as his music stand.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says there is "absolutely" no chance of Moscow telling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stand down.

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Plus, there is no chance this measure would pass the House, at least as a stand-alone bill.

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But if media reports were true -- festering corpses, raging violence, filth, and no food or water -- Askew feared her son didn't stand a chance.

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But the fact is no acts of violence or intimidation, even as savage as the killings last week, stand a chance of derailing for any substantial amount of time the groundswell of willpower at the heart of the global anti-polio effort.

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Pesos will do as a medium of exchange, if you have no other choice, but once dollars are just a click away the peso doesn't stand a chance competitively.

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