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14 Dec 07

SKoreans clone cats that glow in the dark: officials - Yahoo! News

  • SEOUL (AFP) - South Korean scientists have cloned cats by
    manipulating a fluorescent protein gene, a procedure which could help develop
    treatments for human genetic diseases, officials said Wednesday.





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    In a side-effect, the cloned cats glow in the dark when exposed to
    ultraviolet beams.

    • Glow in the dark cats? What will they think of next? Although a rather bizarre discovery, these fluorescent kittens may be key to helping develop treatments to diseases that plague humans. Is illumination too high of a price to pay for good health? - on 2007-12-14
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  • Investigators have so far received 70 tips and traveled to New York,
    Pennsylvania and Delaware to pursue leads.

    "We're asking the public for
    additional help," said Dalton. The $100,000 reward is the highest amount offered
    for a crime in Gloucester County to date.

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  • Four teenagers have been charged and are being detained in connection with an
    attempted robbery and aggravated assault at the Beau Rivage Complex at
    approximately 11 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 8.
    • 2007 has been a disconcerning year for Rowan University students due to the death of Donnie Farrel, and recent events don't seem to be helping the matter. As a Rowan University student, I am perplexed with what to think about security in and around campus since there has been another major crime incident less than a mile away from the main facilities. - on 2007-12-14
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E-mails hint at astronaut love triangle- msnbc.com

  • Nowak and Oefelein discussed mostly routine things like
    schedules, technical issues about the shuttle and astronaut insurance in e-mails
    sent between mid-2004 and January 2007, a month before her arrest on allegations
    she tried to abduct Shipman.


    But some messages between Oefelein
    and Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman were overtly flirty. He begins a message in
    early 2007 "Hey cutie" and signs it "Love you." In writing about an upcoming
    trip, he says: "They want your size for the arctic gear...I think I can figure
    that out — sized sexy and athletic."

Word-of-the-Year Ritual Pauses for Puzzlement - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog

    • It seems that the technologically savy may rejoice as the common online lingo, w00t, has become Merriam-Webster's word of the year. Having experience in the online gaming world, it comes of no surprise that w00t has ventured into the mainstream. - on 2007-12-14
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Will Smith Gets Lost in His Legend - TIME

  • I Am Legend is the third major movie adaptation of the 1954 novel by
    Richard Matheson; the others were the The Last Man on Earth with Vincent
    Price in 1964 and The Omega Man with Charlton Heston seven years later.
    • Hype surrounding I Am Legend has intrigued me to do further research into the novel. I was never aware that there were two other adaptations of the novel and now wonder if the movie will just be a flop. Can Will Smith captivate audiences with scenes of isolation such as Tom Hanks did in Cast Away? We'll see. - on 2007-12-14
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Madonna to be inducted into Rock Hall - Music- msnbc.com

  • CLEVELAND - The Material Girl is about to become a Hall
    of Famer.


    The ever-evolving Madonna was
    announced as a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee on Thursday along with John
    Mellencamp, The Ventures, Leonard Cohen and The Dave Clark
    Five.


    A panel of 600 industry figures
    selected the five acts to be inducted at the annual ceremony, to be held March
    10 in New York.

    • Madonna is NOT rock and roll. She has never been rock and roll. I am appalled that she is joining the ranks of acts such as Pink Floyd, The Who, and Led Zeppelin. "Like a Virgin" comparable to "Dark Side of the Moon?" Give me a break. - on 2007-12-14
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Amazon buys Rowling book for nearly $4 mil - BOOKS- msnbc.com

  • Sotheby’s also auctioned “Marrakech,” a painting by Sir Winston Churchill that
    he gave to President Truman in 1951 and had remained in the Truman family. The
    work, which shows a panorama of the Atlas Mountains in Marrakech, Morocco, sold
    for $955,645.
    • While Rowling sold one of seven copies of a rare story she wrote after the conclusion of the Harry Potter series for almost $4 million, a painting by Sir Winston Churchill that was given to the Truman family sold for significantly less. Does anyone else find this to be slightly ridiculous? - on 2007-12-14
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New Jersey to Ban Death Penalty - TIME

  • (TRENTON, N.J.) — With New Jersey poised to become the first state in four
    decades to abolish the death penalty, opponents of the practice declared a
    historic victory and hoped other states would follow suit.

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    The Assembly voted 44-36 on Thursday to approve the legislation, which passed
    the Senate on Monday by a 21-16 vote. Gov. Jon S. Corzine said he will sign it
    within a week.

    • As I am personally against the death penalty, I believe that New Jersey is justified in taking the initiative to abolish the practice. Since the Assembly approved the legislation, it is up to Corzine to finalize bill, and he said he intends to sign it. But how will the rest of America react? Will other states be inclined to abolish the death penalty? - on 2007-12-14
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Led Zeppelin: Seems Like Old Times - TIME

  • To call the concert eagerly anticipated would be an understatement. One million
    people registered for a lottery to buy the 18,000 $255 tickets — which
    subsequently became some of the most expensive ever sold on the secondary
    market, going for around $2,000 each. A 25-year-old man from Scotland — not even
    born when Zeppelin split — spent $170,000 for a pair in a charity auction.
    Ticket-holders started lining up outside the arena on Friday, sleeping outdoors
    in the December chill just to get a choice spot in front of the stage when the
    gates opened. Even ticketless fans felt compelled to do something — anything —
    Zep-related to mark the reunion. One Oxfordshire hotel ran a luxury Led Zeppelin
    weekend, offering guests "TV's to defenestrate" and a menu of red snapper (in
    tribute to the band's legendary seafood-and-groupie incident). Theaters around
    the U.K. — including one under O2's canvas roof — screened old Zeppelin concert
    footage, as did network television.
    • Wow! $225 tickets? Well ... a rock legend gets what they deserve it seems. The reunion of one of the most influential bands in rock history, Led Zeppelin, has caused quite a buzz. It's unfortunate, however, that the concert was held exclusively in England; but after the unsurprising support of fans and obviously staggering profit to made, people in the States may still want to hold onto hope. - on 2007-12-14
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Writers' Strike: The Directors' Cut? - TIME

  • The issue that drove many of the WGA's 12,000 members to support this strike
    was ensuring payment when their work is used in new media formats like webisodes
    and iTunes downloads. But considerable energy in the negotiating room has been
    spent on other issues the parties can't get past, such as whether the WGA should
    include reality show and animation writers in its membership.


    The next group scheduled to start negotiating with the AMPTP, however,
    doesn't have that kind of baggage. The Director's Guild of America, whose
    contract expires in June, has a history of resolving its contracts six months
    early and with little drama. Like the writers, the directors are primarily
    concerned with reaping benefits from the entertainment industry's increasing
    reliance on new media. Out of deference to the writers, the directors have held
    off negotiating so far. But today the DGA issued a statement suggesting they may
    enter the fray as soon as the New Year. "The situation is dire," says the
    statement from DGA president Michael Apted and Negotiations Chair Gil Cates.
    "The WGA-AMPTP impasse has cost the jobs of tens of thousands of
    entertainment-industry workers, including many of our own members, and more lose
    their jobs every day the strike continues. With so much at stake and no end to
    the standoff in sight, we can no longer abdicate our responsibility to our own
    members." Hollywood unions have a history of piggybacking on each other's
    contracts. If the directors and the AMPTP are able to agree on a new media
    compensation formula, the WGA leadership would have a hard time convincing its
    members to continue the strike for the sake of the other issues on the
    table.

    • The Writers' Strike has crippled the entertainment industry recently, forcing many programs to use reruns for over 38 days now. But has progress been made? One would assume the bickering has not changed anything; however, that may soon change. The Director's Guild of America (DGA) active participation and support of the strike may tip the scale in this prevalent debate. - on 2007-12-14
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