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...farmhouse in the country with his wife and two children. Every morning at 4 or 5, Emmett goes downstairs, lights a fire and sits by it, "the sole node of wakefulness at the heart of the sleeping world." He thinks about small, inconsequential things: the furious way his pet duck pecks at a frozen log "as if she were Teletyping a wire service story on it" or the "sudden howl of light" when he opens his refrigerator in the middle of the night. He thinks about "the lovely turquoise exudate, electrical lichen," that forms around the poles...
...insisted to TIME that so far she has not charged the first guinea pigs. Clonaid also sells human eggs for about $5,000 each and offers "banks" in which to store cells in case a family wants to clone a loved one in the future. Boisselier also has a pet-cloning service called Clonapet, which she says has also received great interest. "The media only want to talk about possible birth defects, that the baby will be a monster, but the e-mails I get from people tell us we're brave, that we should go ahead," says Boisselier...
Clients range from busy families that don't have time to herd their pets into a car to the elderly and disabled who can't easily transport their animals. "It's satisfying to know you're helping someone who otherwise wouldn't get care for their pet," says Dr. Alice Emberton, a mobile vet in Nashville, Tenn., who performs everything from neutering to laser surgery...
Having a vet who visits is a great help to pet owners looking for end-of-life care and euthanasia. Colleen Carruthers Olexa of Gainesville, Fla., had to have her 12 1/2-year-old Labrador put down two days before Thanksgiving. Dr. Steve Camp arrived at the family's house and helped them say goodbye. Says Olexa: "Pepper was lying in my husband's arms. It was the best you could have in that situation...
...years, pet-supply executive Andrew King spent about a third of his workweek trapped on the Long Island Expressway, famed for its snail-paced traffic. He felt he had no choice. As president of Kings Cages, a birdcage manufacturer based in Farmingdale, N.Y., about 40 miles east of Manhattan, King has to visit customers scattered all around New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. But one day last spring, as he was spending all morning driving to Oxford, Conn., it suddenly occurred to him that if he had flown from a municipal airport near his business, he would have reached...