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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...
...genetic sequencing of the woolly mammoth, meanwhile, raises the similarly fraught but increasingly realistic possibility of cloning extinct animals, a process that Jurassic Park director Steven Spielberg has called "the science of eventuality." Still, scientist Stephan Schuster, who led the team at Penn State, isn't holding his breath. "What I'm trying to say is that there is a workable route to do that, but it is at this time technically, and cost-wise and time-wise, not feasible." Guess we'll just have to wait for Jurassic Park...
Halftime: the wind continues to blow hard here at the Stadium, as the Yale band showcases Eli creativity by doing essentially the same sketch that the Penn band did last week...
...Bulldogs lead the nation in scoring defense and are second in the Ivies in total defense, in large part due to their experienced secondary. Yale is second in the nation in pass defense efficiency, allowing just six touchdown passes against 19 interceptions. Penn coach Al Bagnoli joked last week that the Crimson must have a height requirement for its receiving corps. Top target Matt Luft is 6’6, sophomore Chris Lorditch (left) is 6’4, and classmate Levi Richards is 6’2, all at least as tall as Yale’s tallest defensive...
...career-high 376 yards, hitting two different receivers for more than 100 yards and matching his career high of four touchdowns. With Brown’s loss to Yale in the same week, the Crimson regains control of its own destiny in the Ivy race, and a win at Penn leaves at least a share of the Ivy title on the line in The Game...