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...source of the hubbub is, by and large, an 8' x 10' stone-walled room in the store's basement: Gurdal's cheese cave...
...cave's environment is optimal for the aging of cheese, and at roughly 50 degrees and 98 percent humidity, occurs naturally in many European basement locales. But to recreate that in Cambridge is rather difficult...
...French explorers who recently excavated a frozen 23,000-year-old woolly mammoth in Siberia ? and now wants to clone it. Bernard Buigues, the man who led the project to carve out a 23-ton ice block around the animal and helicopter it 150 miles to an ice cave laboratory, told reporters Wednesday that he hopes to either clone the animal or use its sperm to fertilize the egg of an Asian elephant. No action will be taken until April, Buigues said, at which point a team of scientists will begin to thaw the beast using, um, hair dryers...
Steve Jobs can. Though he has no more to do with the creation of Pixar movies than, say, Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin had to do with The Matrix, he is a whiz at cajoling, nudging and cheering on John Lasseter and the other gentle geniuses in the Pixar cave to get stuff done. So with a great push, Toy Story 2 will be ready for its Nov. 24 release. It's nearly completed now, and judging by a sneak peek last week, we'd say it looks like high-comic computer...
...Nonetheless, the movement is anxious to consolidate its control over Afghanistan and normalize relations with the international economy ?- a quest that won?t be helped by tales of its fighters? savagery against civilians reported in Monday?s New York Times. "The Taliban can?t afford to be seen to cave in to U.S. pressure," says Dowell. "But they may quietly force Bin Laden to leave, and that leaves him a lot more vulnerable to capture." Object lesson for international terrorists: If you?re going to mess with one big power, lay off the others...