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...world of reproductive biology. In the first, scientists created a mouse born by the fusion of two eggs. In the natural world this is known as parthenogenesis (from the Greek for "virgin birth"), a reproductive strategy used by some insects, invertebrates and the odd fish or reptile but unheard of in mammals. Given the technical difficulty, it's unlikely that you'll see this offered at the local IVF clinic anytime soon...
Americans traveling in Europe, where their dollars don't go very far, are feeling some pain. While vacationing in Paris last week, university professor Maria Armanda was surprised to find "a bottle of Coca-Cola outside the bus stop was $2.60. That's unheard of! I needed the caffeine, or I wouldn't have bought it." Trina Chang, a Californian backpacking through Europe, says, "We were going to buy two oranges this morning, but they cost so much, we put them back. It's so expensive, it's so sad." More important, the cost of foreign goods...
...Island Rule is almost certainly the reason Stegodon dwindled to the size of a water buffalo on Flores. But while examples of such shrinkage had been found in elephants, hippos and deer, it was unheard of in higher primates. "It shows that hominids are following the same evolutionary and ecological rules as other mammals," says paleontologist Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley. "Wallace and Darwin would have been delighted...
...Lenny Bruce: Let the Buyer Beware, a six-CD set due out this week from Shout! Factory, will give the most complete account yet of why. Producer Hal Willner, working with Bruce's daughter Kitty, listened to more than 200 hours of Bruce's private recordings and other long-unheard tapes. Two-thirds of the material has never before been released, ranging from Bruce's show-biz debut--on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts in 1948, doing Jimmy Cagney impressions--to nightclub gigs that Bruce recorded, radio interviews, even phone calls to lawyers...
Price wars are nearly unheard of in the mutual-fund industry, but last week Fidelity Investments, run by Edward C. (Ned) Johnson III, right, cut expenses on five of its index mutual funds. The move, which follows other fee cuts, like the elimination of many funds' sales charges, was a direct swipe at index-fund leader Vanguard Group and a nod to the increasing popularity of exchange-traded funds--low-cost baskets of stock that track particular indexes and trade on stock exchanges. Expenses on the five funds, which are pegged to such benchmarks...