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...suppose it wouldn’t be fair for me to include specific pet peeves like my absolute distaste for Penelope Cruz ads or anything having to do with feminine hygiene in this general list of dos and don’ts. Instead, I’ll end with a final don’t that irks me most of all: the botched make-over. Correct me if I’m wrong, but make-overs are supposedto make the person being transformed better than they were at the outset. I feel like some stylists forget this important fact...
...follow the duo; they love Trey, but not Mitch. Renzi eventually hires actor William Shatner, who appears as himself, to teach Mitch how to be “more realistic” on TV. She even attempts to improve his image by renovating his apartment and buying him a pet...
...bruised America's relations with its allies - the EU, Russia, South Korea, Brazil, Japan, China, Taiwan and even Australia are all hopping mad and promising a fight - and left his Administration's pro-trade credibility in tatters. It also opened the door to countries like China throwing up pet barriers of their own. All in the name of about 800,000 voting steelworkers and retirees in West Virginia (and part of Pennsylvania), their unions, and their unions' congressmen...
...more than a mere scientific breakthrough. The news, which broke first in the Wall Street Journal, caught the eye of entrepreneurs. Each year millions of pets die in the U.S., leaving behind plenty of well-heeled owners who would be willing to pay top dollar to replace their beloved companion. Genetic Savings & Clone already offers to freeze pet DNA for future cloning, charging a one-time fee of $895 plus $100 a year for storage...
...cloner beware. Genetically reproducing a pet is not cheap. "The ones we do in the next year are going to cost five figures," says Hawthorne. Only later, when the procedures get streamlined, will costs drop. There are also technical problems. The Texas lab's 1-in-87 success rate is typical of cloning work, which can produce dozens of dead embryos for every living...