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...underpaid laboratory staff that venerated him, went on to create multiple lines of thriving stem cells with unprecedented efficiency and ease. He topped his performance off last summer with yet another feat that had eluded some of the world's most talented scientists: the first cloning of a dog, called Snuppy. TIME named Snuppy "Invention of the Year" for 2005, but that was merely the icing on a cake of praise and recognition for Hwang. Scientists from around the world were clamoring to collaborate with him. Volunteers besieged his operation, offering themselves as research subjects. The South Korean government began...
According to Chinese astrology, the coming Year of the Dog will be a prosperous one - particularly if you were born under that sign (or in a rabbit, tiger or horse year). Chinese restaurateurs and transport operators certainly don't need to be told twice: the holiday period typically brings a business boom as Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat...
...thoughts to the afterlife, in an endearingly meditative farce about Veronica, a depressive woman who commits suicide in the year 2000 ("At least I got to miss 9/11") and lands in a sort of limbo, where she is reincarnated as, among other things, an abused child and a dog. Veronica is played by the dimpled Kristine Nielsen, whose performance is less depressive than manic; she orates her grudges with the gale force of one of those crazy people who enters a crowded subway car and shouts her conviction that the end is nigh into the ear of the nearest standee...
...worse. He?s still insisting that two of the 17 human stem-cell lines he says he created through cloning are legitimate, but the university is looking into those as well-and sifting through his data on Snuppy, which Hwang presented last summer as the world?s first cloned dog...
...Reports of a “suspicious” suitcase led officers to the New Research Building. Upon closer inspection, it was determined that the suitcase was from the airport and did not pose a threat. 7:02 p.m.—An officer observed two dog owners attempting to separate their dueling pooches. The officer oversaw the exchange of contact information between the parties once the conflict ended. Police logs failed to mention which one of the dogs had won the fight. Dec. 14: 8:59 a.m.—Officers descended upon the Harvard Student Agencies building...