8.08.2004

News items that are interesting...

August 5, 2004

Baba Ganoush stares at her reflection in a mirror as her sibling Tabouli crouches below her, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2004, in San Francisco. These two kittens are the first cats cloned by chromatin transfer, a new cloning technology developed by Genetic Savings & Clone, a pet gene banking and cloning company, who produced the kittens as a precursor to production of the first batch of cat clones for the public. It will cost $50,000 to have your cat cloned. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

August 6, 2004

They say blondes have more fun, but redheads will have the edge on Sunday when they get into London Zoo for free to view a rare new-born ginger-coloured monkey.The endangered south east Asian Francois Langur monkey, called Laa Laa, pictured in this handout photo, has typical baby orange fur which in six months will turn a glossy black. REUTERS/London Zoo

August 8, 2004

San Francisco Giants (news) centerfielder Dustan Mohr (news) stretches to make a diving catch to rob Moises Alou (news) in the eighth inning in San Francisco on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2004. The Giants won, 6-3. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

August 8, 2004

Koko, the 230-pound gorilla who converses in sign language, admires her new kitten in this April 2, 1985 file photo. Koko received a clean bill of health after a full medical examination, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2004. (AP Photo/Ronald Cohn, National Geographic (news - web sites) Society/File)