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...touch and go whether the oyster would survive at all, until an inspired French marine biologist, Victor Coste, discovered in the mid-1800s the secret of collecting larvae and raising seed, making it possible to grow oysters in waters where for various reasons they are unable to breed. The oysters of Locmariaquer, for instance, are transplanted three times before they are shipped to market. The success of the process depends on what the French call tromper I'huître ("fooling the oysters"), an ingenious method of making the oyster clean itself out and preventing it from "yawning...
...complicated and expensive requirements of today's oil exploration-basically, more distant searches and deeper drilling with more sophisticated equipment-have shut out most of the old breed of independent operators. A few independents, however, are still rich and ready enough for global competition with the major companies-and one of the richest and readiest is a stocky, straightforward Texan named John Whitfield Mecom. At 53, Mecom has amassed assets of between $400 million and $500 million, reaped largely from 30 years of roaming the world in search of oil. Last week, on yet another search, he started drilling...
...separate sperm that produce female offspring from those that produce males? Various methods, such as the use of electric fields or care ful temperature control, produced only minimal results. Then, in India, Zoologist Bhairab Chandra Bhattacharya noticed that the upper portion of a sperm sample tended to breed more bulls; the lower portion gave more cows. Apparently this was because the sperm that produce female offspring are heavier than those that produce males and sank to the bottom of the solution...
...improve the process, Bhattacharya moved to the Max Planck Institute for Animal Breeding at Hagen, Germany, where he went to work under the direction of Zoologist Gham Gottschewski. Using rabbits, which are not only cheaper than cattle but much quicker to breed, he inseminated thousands of does with sperm that had been allowed to settle under varying conditions. His early results were not promising, but after three years of experimentation he hit on a winning combination. He mixed rabbit sperm with egg yolk and glycol, and stored the solution for twelve hours in a refrigerator at slightly above the freezing...
Lodge from an orphanage she aided in Saigon. The Lodges couldn't spell the breed name of the pups-Lhasa Apso. But a quick look at their genealogy showed they had the makings of ideal companions in such uncertain spots as Saigon. The intelligent, sharp-eared dogs were bred in the lamaseries around the sacred city of Lhasa, teamed with the fierce Tibetan mastiff as watch dogs. The mastiffs were chained outside while the small dogs were indoor sentinels. Only trouble is, neither Buster Brown nor Rover Boy is housebroken...