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To: CharlieChina who wrote (2935)	12/26/2004 8:43:31 PM
From: Tom Swift	Respond to of 3432

For Sale: First Cloned Kitten Fri Dec 24, 7:43 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California firm that earlier this year launched the world's first cat cloning service has announced its first sale: a cloned, male kitten named "Little Nicky." Reuters Photo Genetic Savings & Clone -- based in Sausalito, California, and financed by billionaire John Sperling -- announced that it had sold the kitten to a Texas woman for $50,000. The cloned kitten is a genetic twin of "Nicky," a 17-year-old Maine Coone cat that had been kept as a pet by the woman until it died in September. The client, identified only as "Julie," asked that the company not fully identify her since she feared being targeted by groups opposed to cloning. "According to our client, Julie, 'Little Nicky,' the clone, is identical to 'Nicky,' her former cat," Ben Carlson, Vice-President of Genetic Savings & Clone, told NBC. The Humane Society and other animal advocates have criticized pet cloning as potentially dangerous to the animals involved and wasteful, given the millions of dogs and cats that are destroyed each year in U.S. animal shelters. Sperling, an Arizona entrepreneur who launched the for-profit University of Phoenix, underwrote the cloning of the first cat, CC, for Carbon Copy, who was born in 2001. Genetic Savings & Clone runs a "PetBank" service allowing pet owners to send in a tissue sample for later cloning. The company says it expects to offer dog cloning in 2005. Sperling founded the company as part of a bid to clone his dog, Missy. Dolly, a sheep cloned by Scottish researchers in 1996, was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell.

To: CharlieChina who wrote (2935)	12/26/2004 8:45:00 PM
From: Tom Swift	Respond to of 3432

Red-faced man in skirt freed from clothes bin Sat Dec 25, 9:04 PM ET SYDNEY (Reuters) - A red-faced man wearing a mini-skirt has been rescued by police after he became wedged head-first in a clothing donation bin in an act of Christmas charity gone wrong. Police said on Sunday that a startled member of the public had alerted them after seeing what they first thought was a woman trapped in the charity clothing bin late on Christmas Day. Two patrol officers were unable to dislodge the man and a rescue squad was called. The unidentified 35-year-old man was eventually freed early on Sunday and told police he was donating clothes when he became stuck. "I guess that's his own prerogative why he was wearing a skirt, it's not really an offence" a police spokeswoman said. No charges had been laid, she said.

To: CharlieChina who wrote (2935)	12/26/2004 8:45:03 PM
From: CharlieChina	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3432

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