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...cubs at a time, may walk away from one born alone, calculating that it's better to wait for a multiple birth next year than exhaust herself with a singleton now. Mice will examine offspring after they're born and eat undersize young, improving the overall fitness of the litter and giving themselves a valuable dose of protein in the process...
...ever encountered. While its appearance--brown back and cream-colored underside--was nothing special, its reproductive behavior proved to be downright bizarre. The female swallowed her own eggs, incubated them in her stomach and gave birth through her mouth. A single mother coughed up 21 offspring in the same litter...
...only mammal ever to be manufactured from the cell of an adult donor. Since then, the clone ranks have swelled, with mice and cattle also toddling out of the labs. Last week cloning technology took another step forward when an international biotechnology company announced that it had created a litter of five genetically identical piglets, and that it had a pretty good idea of how they could one day be used: as organ donors for ailing humans...
...government building in Trenton, N.J., board chairman William Granville Jr. recalls how students initially covered the walls with graffiti and ran shouting down hallways. Today, after hours of instruction devoted to such concepts as dignity and self-respect, orderly students file through spotless white corridors and volunteer to sweep litter off the carpeted floors...
...wonder what causes these discrepancies. Could it be that after Floyd had hit North Carolina, the Emergency Animal Rescue Service asked for donations of leashes, collars, kitty litter, and muzzles? Or maybe we can attribute it to the call of a regional newspaper that decided to publish a list of what victims displaced from their homes most urgently needed: nonperishable food, cleaning supplies, shovels--and the list goes on. Sure, bleach and other cleaners might count as luxuries, but after all we are talking about the United States here--not some remote African country with people living on less than...