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Helping animals into the future is a priority for the world's wildlife researchers as an ever growing number of species become imperiled each year. Oliver Ryder, a geneticist at the San Diego Zoo's Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species, is the driving force behind a 25-year effort to assemble a bank of frozen dna, eggs and sperm from endangered species. Under his direction, the frozen zoo now has living cells from 5,400 animals spanning more than 400 species and subspecies, cultured and frozen in liquid nitrogen...
...missing creature is often on Ryder's mind. "Could you take a cell from a Morro Bay kangaroo rat and bring it back, and would it be the same?" he asks. "There are a lot of questions, but we don't have that option now because nobody saved the cells" while lab work was being conducted on the rodent in the 1970s. "The future will want to know about these species, and the lingua franca of biology is increasingly going to be genomic information. If nobody saves the DNA of these samples, it's going to be a very fragmented...
...that this is the most famous truck driver since the O.J. Simpson case but no one in the media ever mentioned him," she says. Knowing how society values the truck driver du jour, Spillane called Good Morning America, Rosie O'Donnell and Regis Philbin. She also called Ryder about getting Enos on some TV spots. She hasn't heard back from them yet, so she's calling some other truck-rental companies. Spillane plays hardball...
...With the Ryder truck being auctioned off on eBay for $80,000 or more, good sense says the driver has to be worth at least half that much. But Enos, 38, is still putting in days as the voting-system manager in West Palm Beach. I don't really understand what he has to do with the voting-system mess down there, but it does seem like a good idea for Spillane to be scouting out other work...
Enos doesn't sing, dance, act or even drive trucks--except for this one time--but he does seem to tell jokes. "I might do a commercial for Ryder, but I'm not looking to do something spectacular like run for President," he says. In level of fame, Enos ranks himself below Bronson Pinchot and even under Spillane clients Divine Brown and Faye Resnick. "Those people are focused on a whole story," he says. "I'm just one person who transported ballots from West Palm Beach to Tallahassee." In fact, Enos seems kind of creeped out by the attention...