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...Hwang's dedication to humans is something of a mid-career switch. A trained veterinarian, Hwang teamed up with gynecologist Dr. Moon Shin Yong, a gynecologist and leading fertility expert, after Dolly the sheep was cloned in Scotland in 1996. Part of the work was aimed at creating better livestock: in 1999 they cloned a high-yielding dairy cow in Korea, and last December they announced the successful cloning of a cow resistant to mad-cow disease. But they were also looking at how cloning could benefit humans. Their team has cloned miniature pigs whose organs could potentially be used...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby has called “a time of serious constraint.” Yet both organizations which supply the Houses with TP denied that rumor. David Lepold, whose company Unicco supplies some of the Houses, said that Dunster’s switch to the Scott brand “must have been a fluke in the ordering...
...representative of Xpedex estimated that buying Cottonelle for the non-Unicco Houses would be about one third more expensive, but substantially more if the entire campus did not switch. At the same time, these rolls contain only 400 sheets instead of 500. There are those who would further argue that Cottonelle, which is as soft as a baby rabbit, is less economical and more wasteful because it is thicker and thus gets used more quickly...
...addition, they voted to switch GPAs from a 15- to a four-point scale...
While honors is currently rewarded according to a GPA cutoff, according to Feldman, the plan to switch it to a University-wide percent quota of 60 percent may encourage instructors to inflate individual grades in hopes of garnering more honors for their students...