Word: hounding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first birthday by plowing into three cakes--made of steamed rice, chocolate and ice cream. For his minders, the past year has been filled with controversy; Snuppy's creator, Hwang Woo Suk, was dismissed in March from Seoul National University for fabricating data on stem-cell studies. But the hound, who has never left campus, remains healthy. He spends his days playing with his student caretakers and bunks with them, too, for protection from anticloning activists. "We all love him so much," says a guardian. "He is very bright and friendly...
From there, reporters fanned out in one-man bureaus across the state, typing up copy and sending it off on Grey-hound buses to be printed each week...
...rabbits, horses and cats but, until this year, never a dog. Man's best friend, it turns out, is extremely difficult to duplicate. It was Woo Suk Hwang and his team at Seoul National University who finally succeeded in turning a single cell from the ear of an Afghan hound into a genetically identical puppy. Hwang was back in the news last week when he admitted lying about the source of some of the human eggs used in an earlier stem-cell experiment. Nevertheless, many scientists suspect the techniques Hwang perfected to clone a dog could be adapted to duplicate...
...It’s no easy task for a first-time candidate to steal a seat on the all-incumbent City Council. But Gordon’s wonky appearance belies a publicity hound who says he isn’t afraid to take on the “city establishment...
...thrill of thrift shopping is all in the hunt, as any vintage clothing hound will tell you. But what if you're too busy to rifle through rails of ropey rags in search of that perfect Pucci dress? You could either resign yourself to wearing contemporary clothing, or contact Palette London, a sleek boutique based in fashionable Islington. Palette offers a "finder service" for shoppers from all over the world; owner Mark Ellis boasts that he can track down just about any vintage garment or accessory. Supply Ellis with your measurements and the details of the '60s Ossie Clark trouser...