usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? Print Friendly View Email Article Natural Wonders: Paper, pencil: Forerunners of printed things By REX BURRESS Article Launched:03/31/2007 12:00:00 AM PDT When I wrote about the wonder of old books and their origin, the subject should have begun with paper and pencil, since they were the forerunners of printed things. usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? Print Friendly View Email Article Natural Wonders: Paper, pencil: Forerunners of printed...

Mark and Kylie and Nigel and Joanne will now go forward to represent Southland in the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards Sharemilker of the Year and Farm Manager of the Year national final to be held in Invercargill on May 12, competing for a combined national prize pool of more than $100,000. Mark and Kylie and Nigel and Joanne will now go forward to represent Southland in the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards Sharemilker of the Year and Farm Manager of the Year national final to be held...

My wife, Pam, and I had set out for this place - the far western tip of Tasmania - with a sense of adventure, an occasionally misread road map, and a wild hair I'd brought from halfway across the globe. One minute we were looking at sheep grazing on gentle hills, and the next we were passing a vast plain of rusty-brown button grass. From Argentina, the currents sweep unimpeded more than halfway around the planet before they hit this point. The road was in great shape, as were all of the...

And when those ideas do surface, I get the usual condescending browbeating bums rush from the left as if how dare I disagree with the all-knowing liberal left. Nothing impresses me less than condescending, uppity liberal reprobates wallowing in hypocritical blame-shifting while looking down their noses at anyone who dares to disagree with them, when in fact most liberals wouldn't know the truth about much of anything if it fell on them. Nothing impresses me less than condescending, uppity...

This action will open the way for food producers to use copies of genetically superior animals to make bigger, stronger herds and, perhaps, tastier products. Nine months ago, scientists at Walton's closely held ViaGen inc. extracted genetic information from customers' prized cattle and transferred the DNA into bovine eggs to make embryos. Now, 75 miles away at the 300-acre Hillman Ranch in the town of Cameron, surrogate mother cows, carrying the embryos, are giving birth to calves that are...