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...Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the sale of cloned meat in the U.S., having determined that products from cloned cattle, pigs and goats are as safe to eat as meat from their naturally reproduced brethren. That makes advocates happy: Cloning enables the livestock industry to do in a fraction of the time what breeders have been doing throughout history, narrowing the gene pool to its most desirable genes. Beyond that, say cloners, future benefits include production of genetically engineered animals that could offer a variety of benefits - more nutrient-rich milk, for example, for people without adequate access...
...hard to even remember what made the disc so terrible. Throughout, Collett sings in a voice reminiscent of Bob Dylan and occasionally even channels the folk legend through harmonica riffs. But while he’s got the sound and the lilt down, Collett possesses only a tiny fraction of Dylan’s songwriting talent. He seemingly lacks the ability to create anything inventive, interesting, or meaningful. From time to time, Collett throws in a couple of different instruments and marginally varies a tune or two, but overall he fails to break out of the small...
Estimated removal costs are less than $200,000, and low-sulfur biodiesel now fuels trucks and sweepers. Still, sifting tons of litter is a challenge; only a fraction will be recycled...
...recent days, major road and rail lines have begun to reopen, and the crowds of travelers outside the Guangzhou station are a fraction of their previous size. Qi Huilin, 39, and his 19-year-old son, Chunjie, who had spent the past six months working in a shoe factory, stood outside Wednesday, holding tickets bought earlier in the day. "Before it was impossible," Huilin says. It will be another day before their train begins the 16-hour journey home to Henan. They'll eat their New Year's Eve dinner in the station, he says, then try to find...
...ingrained is Asterix in French culture that many French people now mistakenly pronounce the word asterisk ('asterisque') as asterix. His success spawned an Asterix theme park outside Paris in 1988: it manages to compete honorably against Disneyland Paris, although it has a fraction of the resources of its American rival. And while the U.S. has remained immune to the Gaul's charms, his celebrity has already been recognized by one venerable American publication: Asterix was the cover star for a TIME magazine special edition on "The New France...