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Indeed, he represents the latest product of commercial pet cloning, a striking phenomenon that began in 2004 with a dead cat in north Texas. While the American firm that first cloned pets on the open market was shut down in 2006, the practice has hardly suffered or stagnated; in fact, Booger’s status as the first dog cloned for the consumer demonstrates clear sophistication and evidence of enduring demand amongst wealthy pet-owners in mourning...

Author: By Emily C. Ingram | Title: Daddy, buy me a clone! | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

Lifestyle Pets targets the same economic stratus with its hypoallergenic kittens (from $5,950), ready-trained “family protector” German Shepherds (from $85,000) and—most controversially—the giant “luxury” Ashera cat, a genetic blend of African and Asian wildcats with the domestic cat, which costs over $125,000 a pop. All of these engineered animals can be ordered online. Whatever happened to the magic of picking out a family pet at the animal shelter? Today, that idyllic episode has become obsolete; we can instead visit...

Author: By Emily C. Ingram | Title: Daddy, buy me a clone! | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...also president of The Harvard Advocate, which she joined at the end of her sophomore year. However, she says, she is more inclined toward independent projects, one of which was a 16mm film about the romance between felines and humans, a kind of diary of a cat named Oliver. She is also currently working on an installation named “Marshmallowtopias,” a performance piece about sculptures that comes to life on ice skates.But art did not become a significant part of Hays’ life until about two years ago, although she had been interested...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alexandra M. Hays '09 | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...music is not going to be completely regardless of what people like to hear,” Miller says. “It’s not the type of cat...

Author: By Ama R. Francis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Marcus G. Miller | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...Such was the parade of images and sound-bites that filtered out from McCain's "It's Time For Action" tour of America's "forgotten places." But for all the imagery clearly designed to undermine negative stereotypes of insensitive, fat-cat Republican candidates, McCain didn't stray from his conservative principles, offering policy prescriptions that were largely drawn from the small-government quiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain Sells the Caring Conservative | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

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