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General John Abizaid likes to travel on the edge. He is riding in a Black Hawk helicopter as it tears across the skies of central Iraq, skimming treetops and flushing startled sheep out onto the grassy pastures beneath. As always, the general's entourage of three choppers is shadowed by Apache helicopter gunships, hunting for the hunters--the insurgents who may lurk below and would like nothing better than to shoot down another symbol of the American occupation. This one would be a particular prize: as the head of the U.S. military's Central Command, Abizaid is the Pentagon...
...Weight of the fleece sheared from Shrek, a sheep that roamed free in New Zealand for six years. The wool will be auctioned for charity...
MEANWHILE IN CROMWELL... Bad Hair Day TV viewers around the world watched as Shrek the merino sheep, who had been on the run for six years, was shorn live on camera. When finally captured on New Zealand's South Island, Shrek was found to have sprouted a fleece weighing 27.5 kilos - enough to make 20 men's suits...
...captured. The tribesmen were also allowed to keep their weapons. In exchange, Mohammed and his clan promised to refrain from attacks on Pakistani forces and the U.S. troops in nearby Afghanistan. Gleeful rebel tribesmen accepted the easy terms--and then treated Hussain to a meal of rice and slaughtered sheep...
...researchers' method was familiar to anyone who has been following the cloning parade from sheep to mice to other animals over the past several years. After harvesting 242 eggs from 16 female volunteers, Hwang and Moon removed the eggs' genetic material and replaced it with DNA extracted from adult cells donated by the same women. They then used tiny bursts of electricity to fuse together the donor material and egg. Nourished in dishes, 30 of the hybrid eggs developed into blastocysts--balls of hundreds of cells that represent one of the earliest stages of fetal development. When couples undergo...