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Foster and Bennett believe that similar feats of embryo transfer will enable the zoo to breed rare equine animals with rapidity. Says Foster: "A zebra's pregnancy normally lasts eleven months. If the embryo is flushed, the female zebra cycles again and can reproduce once more. If we use surrogate recipients, one such zebra can reproduce as many as ten offspring yearly...
...group, who number no more than a score, are the merger and acquisition specialists of the top American investment banks. They are the financiers of capitalism, raising funds for corporations with stock and bond issues, as well as trading securities for their own accounts. The best known of their breed was J.P. Morgan, the great financier who died in 1913. Morgan once wrote, "My job is more fun than being king, pope, or prime minister, for no one can turn me out of it, and I don't have to make any compromises with principles." He might have added...
...STORY IS however a familiar one. A few years back Soviet authorities were alarmed to find that the Russians caviar trade was about to collapse because the special breed of fish required was slowly doing out. With a casual request to Washington, the U.S.S.R. received free of charge, a generous supply of a nearly identical species of American fish under an earlier research sharing agreement. The consequence was American fish eggs in Russian containers at exorbitant prices...
...worry about the great Washington shout-out over how the U.S. should stand tall in the world is that we could soon produce a feckless breed of political leaders who would spend their time debating how best to do nothing...
...rare breed: an urban entrepreneur working in direct competition with the state. With the help of a brother and sister, Bai handles 80 to 100 customers a day in his neat, red-painted studio, which he keeps open until 8 p.m. seven days a week. He works in the darkroom until midnight, processing the negatives and retouching them to eliminate warts, wrinkles and other unflattering features. "I don't rest," Bai says. "Even during festivals, I never close." Bai usually charges less than one yuan (500) for a portrait, undercutting prices at the state-run photographic studio...