Word: californianism
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...been cloned to produce seven puppies that were genetically predisposed to detecting drugs. Earlier this year, the National Institute of Animal Science in South Korea cloned mini pigs, with organs intended as human implants. In February 2008, Korean company RNL Bio took its first order from a Californian woman willing to pay $150,000 to replicate her dead pit bull terrier, Booger, from some refrigerated ear tissue...
...surprising that they get bitter," Obama told a group of wealthy Californian donors at a closed San Francisco fund raiser, referring to rural blue-collar workers who have been hard hit by outsourcing and declining wages. "They cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations...
...When I heard the New York band’s eponymous 2004 LP in the summer of 2006, it sounded positively Californian, except edgier than the Beach Boys and possibly more harmonic than The Mamas and the Papas. I was ashamed to be two years late in my discovery, yet at the same time, excited—I figured that their second album was imminent...
...defeated German soldier, he spent three months in a pow camp but was then allowed to return home and witness one of the great modern acts of charity, the rebuilding of Germany by an occupying force that could just as easily have exacted revenge. Cardinal William Levada, the Californian whom Benedict tapped as his successor at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), says, "He's of a generation that remembers, gratefully...
...example of Clinton's close ties with the Hispanic community: she has the backing of the United Farm Workers. The union founded by Cesar Chavez is an unparalleled organizing force of Californian Latinos. Obama recently won the support of Maria Elena Durazo, the head of Los Angeles County Federation of Labor AFL-CIO, though her endorsement is personal and doesn't carry the weight of her unions. He also this week won the support of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, a favorite of unions, which may also help him with the union vote...