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...five-month-old half-Chihuahua, half-terrier, whom they named Becky. Joubert refuses to leave Becky alone in the couple’s gray Volvo station wagon, and the shelter—run by Harvard students and housed at the University Lutheran (UniLu) Church—maintains a strict no-dogs-allowed policy...
...Joubert, who speaks disdainfully of the “crackheads and druggies” that she says populate UniLu, the move to living full-time in the station wagon was a small sacrifice to make for her canine companion...
...called Twin Buttes, a cedar-covered knoll in the high desert of northwest Arizona. Another day of the fall roundup at the Double O Ranch begins as six sleepy cowpunchers stir from their bedrolls and head for the campfire's warm glow. Beyond the flames is the covered cook wagon, sides of beef hanging outside and a bag of flour sitting within. After wolfing down biscuits, meat and gravy, the six men pull on their chaps and walk slowly to the corral to saddle the horses and head...
Cowpuncher Ross Knox stays behind, watching the coming dawn. Daylight reveals a clash of cultures, old and new. Less than 50 ft. from the fire stands a pickup truck that hauls the cook wagon from camp to camp. In the distance, 18-wheelers fly down Interstate 40. As his friends ride off to round up cattle, Knox ambles back to the fire for another cup of coffee...
...sickle-cell anemia. In short, an increasing number of biologists and geneticists agree, the field of transgenic mice is hot. Says Rudolf Jaenisch, a molecular biologist with the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass.: "Everybody wants to jump on the bandwagon because it's such an interesting wagon to ride...