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Distinguishing the genuinely inspiring summer jobs (real prospects for happy post-Harvard employment) from the merely challenging is only complicated by the wealth of opportunity at Harvard. Inevitably, I feel bad turning down a job that dozens of other students would chop off an ear to secure. Under this sort of “you should realize how lucky you are” pressure, I feel compelled to call the post-college vocation search quits even knowing that my plum summer job may not be what I really want...
...Gasa is barely able to walk now, and a recent ear infection landed him in hospital for 10 days. Earlier on this warm, cloudless day, when his visitors disembarked from their boat, bringing supplies of rice, bottled water and betel nut, Gasa thanked them for the gifts. Now, in a wavering voice, he recalls the war as the most terrible time of his life. "We could hear bombs all night until daybreak," Gasa says through interpreter Neboty Turukevu, a Solomon Islands police officer who is linked by marriage to the patriarch known locally as "the old man." "We were...
...mightily, nobody had ever created a genetic double of man's best friend. Not, that is, until South Korean researcher Woo Suk Hwang and his team at Seoul National University brought Snuppy the puppy into the world--an animal whose entire genome came from a single cell from the ear of a three-year-old Afghan hound. Snuppy's arrival, announced in Nature last week, earned grudging admiration from rival cloners...
...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...
...EAR CANDY...