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...industry skepticism. There are some who think Discovery has grown too fast, diluting the quality and appeal of its biggest brand by launching so many channels and other ventures, including a flagging chain of 154 retail stores. Then, too, competition is heating up, and not just from the new breed of reality-TV shows like Joe Millionaire and The Bachelorette. National Geographic recently joined forces with Rupert Murdoch's Fox Cable Networks to start a competing, eponymous adventure channel that reaches about 40 million U.S. homes...
...came up with a blueprint directing federal inspectors to hunt down Listeria on the equipment, surfaces and drains of every major producer of ready-to-eat meat and poultry. (Though the USDA selectively inspected processed meat for Listeria, it had left testing of plant interiors, where the bacteria can breed, to the companies.) The National Food Processors Association (N.F.P.A.), voice of the $500 billion industry and a major Republican donor, called Veneman's plan "very onerous" and predicted that universal government testing of plants would result in undue recalls and delay meat shipments while test results were pending...
...Mick, as he's known for short, over 2,602 other contestants, including a bichon frise named Paray's I Told You So and a Newfoundland named Darbydale's All Rise Pouchcove. Neither Mick nor his owner, Marilu Hansen, will get any prize money, but Mick will get to breed with lots of good-looking dogs. And isn't that its own reward...
...EUTHANIZED. DOLLY, 6, the world's first cloned sheep; after being diagnosed with progressive lung disease; in London. Cloned in 1996 with DNA from an adult ewe's cell, Dolly lived to half the expectancy of her breed. Her early death and illnesses--she also had arthritis--raised questions about whether she had aged prematurely and about the safety of cloning...
...celebrity executives leading some of China's top private companies. Most came of age during early capitalist reforms, when a cowboy approach made them popular--though their talents sometimes failed them outside China. Wang Licheng, 42, CEO of Holley and one of China's most celebrated executives, typifies the breed...