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...Winners DRYOCOCELUS AUSTRALIS The real survivor in the outback. Stick insect thought extinct shows up alive and well off Aussie coast NEAR-SHOEMAKER U.S. spacecraft is first man-made object to land on an asteroid? other than Bruce Willis STEVEN SODERBERGH Sorry Spielberg. Filmmaker faces off against himself for the Best Director Oscar...
...Dinosaurs became extinct because they could not adjust to a rapid change in the environment." NOBUYUKI IDEI, Sony Corp. president, telling global business leaders at Davos, Switzerland, that they must keep pace with technological change...
POLIO Last spring a strain of wild polio virus was unexpectedly discovered in the sewage system of Strasbourg, France. It's likely that the virus, considered extinct in that country, had escaped from one of Strasbourg's many biomedical laboratories. Still, the appearance of wild polio in a certified polio-free region undermined World Health Organization plans to eliminate universal vaccination once it declares polio eradicated, which it had hoped to do by 2005. Widespread on five continents, including the Americas, Europe and Asia, through the late 1980s, polio has been contained mostly to parts of sub-Saharan Africa...
...Europe who are engaged in a range of "assisted reproduction" conservation strategies. These include artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization. In particular, though, Noah's arrival will hearten the scientists at ACT, who recently signed a deal with Spanish officials to attempt to clone the bucardo, an extinct mountain goat native to the Pyrenees. The last bucardo died a year ago, struck by a falling tree in its final habitat, northern Spain's Ordesa National Park. Scientists had already preserved a quantity of its cells, and ACT hopes to transfer them into other goats' eggs, perhaps later this year...
After years of watching one species after another become extinct, researchers are sounding optimistic. "We don't have the right to do nothing," says Mauget, who predicts that interzoo exchanges of sperm, oocytes and embryos will develop rapidly. "Instead of shipping our animals from one zoo to another, we'll be sending sperm to the four corners of the earth." Meanwhile, in a corner of Iowa, another kind of delivery is awaited...