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With so many animals already cloned - sheep, cows, mice, cats - what is so important about the successful cloning of a dog announced Thursday in Korea...
...important step because a dog's reproductive system is slightly different from that of other mammals. The eggs of dogs, which are needed to grow the resulting clone (in this case, a cell from the ear of an adult Afghan hound was the genesis of the cloned puppy) do not mature in the ovary, but instead finish their development in the oviduct. It's much easier for scientists to obtain eggs from the ovary than from the oviduct. Many researchers have tried, but failed to get the timing right to get the most mature eggs...
...lamp-posts in towns and cities. One found recently outside a mosque in Pattani's Yarang district excoriates the NRC and "Siamese infidels" who corrupt young Muslims with drugs and money. It warns the "people of Pattani state" to reject all efforts of reconciliation by non-Muslims. "A dog is still a dog, even if it befriends a goat," it says. "People read the leaflets and then destroy them," says a Muslim aid worker in Yala. "Nobody wants to be caught with one in their house or at a checkpoint." The militants threaten death to anyone who destroys their leaflets...
...good student, but I have to work very hard. I have an interpreter in class. The positive is that my interpreter helps me to understand what the teacher and the other kids in the class are saying. The negative is that having an interpreter is like having a dog follow me everywhere. How many other kids my age have an adult with them in every class...
...good job by getting a good education," he wrote at age 13 in an application letter. "I want to get the best job by getting the best education." It was an all boys' school when Roberts entered in 1969--"Most of our dating life came from observing the school dog, Daisy," says schoolmate Tommy Kerrigan--and free time was consumed by three mandatory sports (Roberts ran track, wrestled and was co-captain of his football team), the newspaper (he was co-editor) and drama (he once played Peppermint Patty in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown). Not everyone...