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...became a mountain in South America; in the second film, Temple of Doom, a bas-relief on a Chinese gong; in The Last Crusade a big boulder in Utah. This time, suggesting more modest aspirations, or maybe kiddingly deflecting the audience's gargantuan expectations, it's a weeny prairie dog hill, from which a critter emerges just before being nearly run over by speeding cars. We're in Nevada, near Area 51, and it's 1957, a time of rock 'n' roll (Elvis's "Hound Dog" on the soundtrack), fear of the Soviets (and why not? they've just penetrated...
...meantime, cloning has become an increasingly important tool for medical and public policy purposes in the developed world, with South Korea leading the charge. Last month, that nation’s customs office announced that its prize sniffer dog had 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...
Questionable name choice aside, it’s Booger the bull terrier who seems to deserve particular attention here. He (I can only assume a dog named Booger is male) is in a different category to those carbon copies created in for medical and scientific research purposes...
...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...
Further, what does a pet owner call the clone of their original pet? At the very least, one hopes that owners will not make the same mistake twice and call their poor cloned dog Booger, after the original. Emily C. Ingram ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Eliot house...