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...Bessie's little gaur is delivered safely, the birth will come as a boost to many biologists in the U.S. and 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...
Such signs of moderation will hearten diplomats in the U.S. and Europe, who have downplayed Kostunica's frequent attacks on Western policies in the Balkans and his refusal to cooperate with the U.N.'s war-crimes tribunal. "He wants the Serbian people to be proud," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told TIME, "but he is not an ethnic killer. He is not a former communist, and he believes in the rule of law." And while Kostunica doesn't hide his disdain for U.S. officials, he is eager to normalize relations with the E.U. and join European institutions such...
...like. Many people had good reason to be frustrated, but progress did not always require violent events. The St. Augustine-Jesuit game paved the way for officially integrated competition in 1967. Because of Verrett and Grant, New Orleans finally got a real city championship. St. Augustine's success should hearten people who face inequality today by reminding them how much progress has been made since...
...hilarious in the hands of first-time novelist Laura Zigman, whose Animal Husbandry, a naughty vivisection of male dating rituals, should do for dumped girlfriends what Olivia Goldsmith's The First Wives Club and Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She-Devil did for dumped wives: hearten, console, viciously amuse. It has already been optioned for a movie...
Here's a news summary that will hearten all those fearing an onset of O.J. withdrawal...