April 5, 2002

Phoenix President Provided Funds to Clone Cat

The man behind one of the country's most successful chains of for-profit universities is also the main financier of the world's first copied cat. The replicated feline -- named CC, for carbon copy -- was cloned by researchers at Texas A&M University last year, an event that was announced in February.

For almost four years, John Sperling, founder of the University of Phoenix, has financed reproductive research on animals at Texas A&M. He became interested in the