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Even after four years, I still talk about Seattle a lot. It crops up in sections, my editorial columns--even in Torah discussions at Friday night services. But as I get ready to celebrate the ultimate in cross-coastal happiness (Starbucks, the definitive Seattle coffee roaster, is opening a branch in Boston) I feel the need to reveal a long-held secret...
...people have certainly tried to turn livestock cloning into a booming branch of agribusiness, and they're still trying. Wisconsin-based American Breeders Service, a subsidiary of W.R. Grace & Co., now owns the rights to cattle-cloning technology developed by Granada Biosciences, a once high-flying biotech firm that went out of business in 1992. The process calls for single cells to be separated from a growing calf embryo. Each cell is then injected into an unfertilized egg and implanted in the womb of a surrogate cow. Because the nucleus of the unfertilized egg is removed beforehand, it contains...
...video extravaganza that plunks you down on a barren, monolith-strewn spacescape to neutralize a platoon of stealthy robots: your opponents. The process is called virtual reality. And Virtual World Entertainment, which besides the Walnut Creek showroom has retail outlets in Chicago, Tokyo and Yokohama (with a San Diego branch due in November), is just part of this burgeoning blend of art, science and razzle-dazz...
...little did the guide know that while she was showing students University Hall--the lofty decision-making branch of the Harvard Faculty--the dean himself was screaming disapproval from his second-floor window...
...just huge, it's diversified. One branch of the company concentrates on laundry and dry-cleaning, another does catering, another operates a snack and magazine shop. HSA includes a typographics firm, a travel agency, a distribution arm, and a separately incorporated publishing and sales group...