Word: littered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they don't amount to much if you have losers that you expect to sell anyway. The basic strategy is to dump your dogs now, so that when the crowd starts doing it in November, you'll be waiting with a leash, ready to grab the picks of the litter...
...taken a while, but the answers are finally in. The verdict, according to a trio of reports in the current issue of Nature: yes and yes. Not only have Dolly's pedigree and her immaculate conception been established beyond all reasonable doubt, but she has been joined by litter upon litter of perfectly cloned mice. Cloning has, with a speed no one anticipated, been transformed from an astonishing technical tour de force into what seems almost a mundane laboratory procedure...
Until Dolly, that is. What Dolly proved is that you don't have to take your chances with fetal cells. You can wait until the litter has grown up, see which individuals have proved themselves to be great producers of wool, milk or--a stretch, perhaps--NBA titles, and then clone the champs...
...vulnerable, and the blame lies with human activity. People are literally paving the way for fire's intrusion. Roads penetrating tropical forests provide access to loggers, peasant farmers, ranchers and plantation owners, all of whom use fire to clear land. Logging in particular creates incendiary conditions by leaving combustible litter on the forest floor and allowing sunlight to penetrate the forest canopy and dry out the vegetation...
Joyce believes, though, that the artistic failures that litter the cybserscape are good, a hopeful sign. Art, after all, is not produced easily or without struggle, even in the digital age. "We're very close to some shared moment, a transformative medium," he insists. In other words, something big is happening. We'll know it when...