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...quest to duplicate a dog been something of a Holy Grail in the tricky field of mammalian cloning. Since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996, scientists have followed with pigs, cattle, mice, rabbits, horses and cats. But though they tried 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...
...whether or not they knew his name, moviegoers saw Ingmar Bergman films. His influence was everywhere: in the look and some of the scenes of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (inspired by The Seventh Seal), in the horror film The Last House on the Left (a remake of The Virgin Spring) and any number of Woody Allen films, including Interiors (in the manner of Cries and Whispers). On Broadway, Stephen Sondheim transposed the domestic deceptions of Smiles of a Summer Night into A Little Night Music...
...four forces. They are convinced that at the moment of the Big Bang, the violent birth of the universe, only a single, all-powerful force existed, and that not until a fraction of a second afterward did this force split into four. Like knights in pursuit of a visionary grail, scientists for decades have sought what they call--with a bit of tongue in cheek--a Theory of Everything (TOE), a single mathematical model that would describe the fundamental unity of the forces. So far, however, they have met with only some partial successes and many failures...
...Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, calling for a federal investment in alternative fuels and advanced automobile technology. But it's another arm of this movement, the Set America Free alliance (which also counts Woolsey among its members), that has identified a Holy Grail of sorts. Co-founded by Frank Gaffney, the neoconservative chief of the Center for Security Policy, the group is touting the idea of a car that gets 500 m.p.g. of gasoline...
...protect his investment. (He had trucked them to Germany from Russia.) Zaslavsky hopes to produce the first American-grown beluga sturgeon and caviar, in 36 tanks on the 1,700-acre farm of his partner Gene Evans just outside Pierson, Fla. To fish farmers, beluga is the Holy Grail: a species whose eggs can be worth nearly $200 per oz. and whose life-span stretches 100 years. He figures he can harvest 10 tons of caviar annually from the herd of some 200,000 6-ft. creatures he plans to keep on the farm...