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...farm near Sioux City, Iowa. Cows have given birth to gaurs before, but this is the first time that one animal species is acting as surrogate mother to a clone--an exact genetic duplicate--of a different species. "The gaur is developing well," says Emily Poe, a spokeswoman for Advanced Cell Technologies. A small biotechnology company based in Worcester, Mass., ACT is using a novel cross-species nuclear-transfer technique that could usher in what it sees as a new era in conservation...
...increase sales--a laughable notion given the enormous, pent-up demand--but to make herself available to some of her young readers. In October she went public for a project unrelated to Harry Potter but of personal concern to her. She agreed to become the first ambassador, i.e., spokeswoman, for the National Council for One Parent Families, a British charity, and donated $725,000 to the cause...
...Although the polls show Netanyahu way ahead of Barak, his party will now be forced to field Ariel Sharon as its candidate, or else turn to a leader of less national experience such as the rough-and-tumble grassroots organizer Silvan Shalom or the feisty party spokeswoman Limor Livnat. Either way, Barak clearly knows he has a better chance against any Likud candidate other than Netanyahu. Sharon certainly has higher negatives against his name than Netanyahu - no mean feat in light of the fact that the former prime minister is widely loathed even in his own party, after leading Likud...
...everybody else's hurry? It will be hard enough for anyone to govern without a rush to judgment setting off a cottage industry of the grassy-knoll variety. Do we want Who Stole Florida? on the shelf alongside Who Shot JFK? Yet when Gore's deputies threatened litigation, Bush spokeswoman Karen Hughes warned that this would be unhealthy for the country. "That's not the way we do things in America," she huffed. Since when? Suing one another is all we do in America. And heaven forbid that someone would look to settle a real legal question before a judge...
...Beach County, the count stumbled on through Sunday with 197 of 531 precincts counted, but officials released no numbers, saying there were too many questionable ballots remaining. As of Saturday, 31 precincts had yielded 12 votes - for Bush. But with constant objections being lodged from both sides, canvassing board spokeswoman Denise Cote said meeting the previous Thanksgiving target was "extremely unlikely...