Word: parkes
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...scientists from Penn State University announced that they had succeeded in piecing together the majority of the woolly mammoth's genome, bringing the world one step closer to the Jurassic Park fantasy of using recovered DNA to bring an extinct species back to a shaggy, lumbering existence...
...vendor in Moscow, and the wonders of science allowed them to extract the mammoth's genetic information in the most successful attempt to date to sequence an extinct animal's DNA. DNA in general breaks down after 60,000 years or so, making the possibility of a real Jurassic Park scenario - complete with flying pterodons and bloodthirsty tyrannosaurs - remote. Still, scientists see the completion of the genome as the first step to uncovering and understanding the reasons behind the mammoths' extinction, and the effort has brought the cloning question back to the public's mind in a (ahem) mammoth...
...local government tentatively plans to turn the remains of the city into a memorial park. Zhang now heads the Beichuan department of commerce, working to attract new businesses and industrial development. But the strain on him and other local bureaucrats is severe. A quarter of government officials died in the quake. Zhang says his job keeps him from remembering what happened to his wife and daughter. "When I'm buried in my work, I think they are still alive," he says. "But when I look up and see that drawing, I remember they...
...They added 51,000 acres of tracts near Arches, Dinosaur and Canyonlands without telling us about it.' CORDELL ROY, Utah's chief park-service administrator, blasting the Bureau of Land Management for its plans to auction land near the iconic Arches National Park for oil and gas exploration...
...state director SELMA SIERRA, denying that her agency failed to notify the state's park service about the December auction...