Archive for December 15th, 2006
Cloned cat becomes mother
The world’s first cloned cat just became a mother _ and she even did it without test tubes. Copy Cat, who was cloned by Texas A&M University researchers in 2001, had three kittens in September. Mother and kittens are doing well, said Duane Kraemer, an A&M veterinary medicine professor who helped clone her and has [...]
Posted: December 15th, 2006 under Discoveries / Science.
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Youngsters lift car off man
When Gary Lewis’ car collapsed onto his chest while he was changing the transmission, the only people around to hear his cries for help were five skinny youngsters.
Together, the four boys and a girl - ranging in age from 8 to 13 - were able to lift the compact Ford Festiva just enough to allow [...]
Posted: December 15th, 2006 under Life Stories.
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Lost & Found: A mother’s search for a son she gave up 37 years ago
IT WAS 1960 in a Florida hospital that Emily Pickering gave birth to a baby she never got a chance to see.
He was whisked away before she could cradle his head with her hand, before she could breathe in the boy’s new-baby smell.
Decades later, the Norfolk woman wanted to find her birth son but figured [...]
Posted: December 15th, 2006 under Love / Romance.
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Holocaust Survivor Reunites With Woman Who Saved Her
Sixty-one years ago, then-teenager Lea Port was one of a handful of Lithuanian Jews who managed to survive the German invasion of Lithuania during World War II.
“They took me in with all of their hearts, and I was like one of the family,” said Lea.
Source: NY1
Posted: December 15th, 2006 under Life Stories.
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Accident reunites dad, son
Mike Higley of Leonardtown, Md., and Larry Krieger of Gilbert spent years looking for each other, each thinking the other was dead.
Krieger was in a minor traffic accident and had his car burglarized in Mesa last year.
The initially troubling incidents left a trail that allowed a Mesa police records administrator to make a match within [...]
Posted: December 15th, 2006 under Life Stories.
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