Attack on Police Dog in Norway Now Equal To Assaulting Police fficer
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- Attack on Police Dog in Norway Now Equal To Assaulting Police fficer
- ‘Hamlet’ goes to the dogs in this page-turner
- It’s a dog’s life (again)
Attack on Police Dog in Norway Now Equal To Assaulting Police fficer
FXNews – Jun 5, 2008
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that they are public servants making an assault on a police dog as serious as an attack on any police officer. The precedent-setting case centered on a police dog named Casper attacked while on duty. In May 2007 in the western city of Bergen a 29-year-old man was caught breaking into an apartment. When police tried to arrest him the man fled. But Casper gave chase — and collared the suspect.
‘Hamlet’ goes to the dogs in this page-turner
Rocky Mountain News – Jun 5, 2008
byline –> Thursday June 5 2008 Colorado-based writer David Wroblewski has been at work at his sprawling debut novel for more than a decade and the results of his painstaking care are evident in the fascinating world that he’s created. His story filled with fluid descriptive prose quickly transports the reader into its timeless setting and rich atmosphere making the pages fly by. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is the tale of an only child born on a Wisconsin dog-breeding farm who can hear but not speak. Edgar grows up helping his father Gar and his mother Trudy with their business breeding and training an extraordinary type of dog known as “Sawtelle dogs.
It’s a dog’s life (again)
New Statesman – Jun 5, 2008
BioArts International has arranged an online auction to decide which dog lovers will qualify: at starting bids between $100000 (£51000) and $180000. But questions are being asked. After pet cloning how soon before grieving parents demand a cloned copy of their dead child? What about fanatics trying to revive dead dictators as in the 1978 film The Boys from Brazil in which exiled Nazis plot to clone Hitler?The company has the sole licence to employ the somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) cloning patents used by the Roslin Institute in Scotland to create the first animal duplicate Dolly the sheep in 1996. Alongside a picture of a man and his dog the BioArts website asks “What if you could be best friends – again?” The chief executive Lou Hawthorne boasts of cloning three copies of Missy a half-collie half-Siberian husky who died in 2002… BioArts International has arranged an online auction to decide which dog lovers will qualify: at starting bids between $100000 (£51000) and $180000. But questions are being asked. After pet cloning how soon before grieving parents demand a cloned copy of their dead child? What about fanatics trying to revive dead dictators as in the 1978 film The Boys from Brazil in which exiled Nazis plot to clone Hitler?The company has the sole licence to employ the somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) cloning patents used by the Roslin Institute in Scotland to create the first animal duplicate Dolly the sheep in 1996. Alongside a picture of a man and his dog the BioArts website asks “What if you could be best friends – again?” The chief executive Lou Hawthorne boasts of cloning three copies of Missy a half-collie half-Siberian husky who died in 2002. Missy was the family dog of the University of Phoenix founder John Sperling who gave $3.
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