Dozens of animals have been cloned since that first lamb—mice, cats, cows and, most recently, a dog—and it's becoming increasingly clear that they are all, in one way or another, defective.
It appears that this willingness to give and share without calculating the cost becomes most evident around the holiday season when a spirit of goodwill stretches deep into the hearts of all people.
Venetian shipping had started to decline from about 1530—before the entry into the Mediterranean of large volumes of Dutch and British shipping—and was clearly outclassed by the end of the century.
For example, tests do not compensate for gross social inequality, and thus do not tell how able an underprivileged youngster might have been had he grown up under more favorable circumstances.