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...while Dolly's creators needed 29 embryos to get one hit). Japanese scientists hope to learn more when other calves--cloned from liver, kidney and heart cells--are born next spring. The beef industry is anxiously awaiting the answer: the clones come from a line of prize cows whose meat sells for $100 a pound...
Other luminaries who have spoken out against impeachment at campus rallies include feminist Gloria Steinem, actor Alec Baldwin, former Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel...
Giving new meaning to the term "mixed medium," an artist who layers his canvases with acrylics, oils and elephant dung last week received Britain's top art award, the Turner Prize. CHRIS OFILI, born in England to Nigerian parents, said a trip to Africa inspired him to use the excrement, sometimes decorated with glitter and beads, in his otherwise brightly colored paintings. Originally, he imported the pachyderm parcels from Zimbabwe, but now he uses the more readily available domestic variety he finds at the London Zoo. Proving how multifaceted feces can be, Ofili rests his works on resin-coated balls...
Wilson said he felt particularly honored to win the prize as a social scientist, following in the footsteps of Nobel laureate and McArthur University Professor Robert C. Merton, who became the first social scientist to win the medal four years...
Rita Colwell, director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), which administers the annual awards, called the award the nation's equivalent of the Nobel Prize for the sciences...