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...took a while to register, but there was something naggingly familiar about Bernann McKinney, the 57-year-old California woman whose ecstatically beaming features were splashed across the world's media on Aug. 6. The story was already a corker: the five baby pitbull terriers McKinney was showing off had been cloned in Korea from the ear of her late and much-missed pet Booger, who'd once saved her from an attack by another dog that had practically ripped McKinney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cloner Dogged by Sex Scandal | 8/11/2008 | See Source »

...Seoul, as she prepared to return home with one of her brand new Boogers, Bernann McKinney initially denied that she is one and the same Joyce McKinney who is still technically a fugitive from British justice. But confronted by the weight of circumstantial evidence - Joyce McKinney's middle name is Bernann, both are former beauty queens, both owned pitbulls and even appear to share the same social security number, birth date and home address - Bernann McKinney confessed to being a reinvention rather than a clone of her former self. "I thought people would be honest enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cloner Dogged by Sex Scandal | 8/11/2008 | See Source »

What They're Cloning in South Korea After her dog Booger died of cancer, Bernann McKinney couldn't imagine life without her precious pooch, so she decided to order a new one. She got five instead. A Seoul lab recently announced it had created five mini-Boogers and said McKinney, who paid $50,000 for the bunch, is the world's first commercial cloning client. The lab posted a message on its website saying its "pet cloning service has begun in earnest. If you are interested in dog cloning, just contact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

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