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Snuppy, the world's first cloned dog, recently marked his first birthday by plowing into three cakes--made of steamed rice, chocolate and ice cream. For his minders, the past year has been filled with controversy; Snuppy's creator, Hwang Woo Suk, was dismissed in March from Seoul National University for fabricating data on stem-cell studies. But the hound, who has never left campus, remains healthy. He spends his days playing with his student caretakers and bunks with them, too, for protection from anticloning activists. "We all love him so much," says a guardian. "He is very bright...
...seem to mind. As he walked away I screamed creepily, “I love ‘Footloose!’” He looked at me like I was from a town where you weren’t allowed to dance and then walked his dog...
...their beloved co-president, they sang camp songs, roasted s’mores, and traded jokes well into the early hours of the morning. Earlier this month, the club staged the second annual “Human Iditarod,” a competition inspired by the famous Alaskan dog sled race in which teams of students pulled homemade sleds around the same space that played host to the campout. Although the group was instructed to extinguish the fire, Rennell and his fellow members of the Alaska Klub did not let the run in with HUPD spoil their evening plans...
...vision of America’s slip down the slope toward war, following its misdirected push after 9/11—which he has discussed elsewhere in political essays. The protagonist, a nonspecifically small-town American father whose young daughter has been attacked and killed by a stray dog, moves from decking his town with FIGHT THE OUTRAGE posters to developing a “Three Point Emergency Plan” to sympathizing with his grieving wife’s demands: “Kill every dog, kill every cat…kill every mouse, every bird. Kill every fish...
...didn’t!’ she said, her face purpling again. “‘You did! I even have pictures,’ I said. ‘And I’ll make it public that you named your dog Pythagoras...’ “Priscilla opened her mouth and gave a few soundless gulps. “‘And that you couldn’t get a date to the freshman fall dance, so you had to take your cousin...