Dilly, this is where you want to be careful to separate what is possible from what is being done. I googled the phrase: the gene from a fish that lives in very cold seas has been inserted into a strawberry, allowing the fruit to be frost-tolerant. I found more than a page of sites that quotes that phrase, all from the anti-groups, and stated as fact. Then, I clicked on a link that wasn't an anti-group, and I pulled up what I believe is the correct version of the strawberry fish story: Genetic engineering involves the disarranging and recombining of gene fragments, often of unrelated species. By cutting a fragment of a genetic sequence and pasting it into cells of an unrelated species, scientists can insert a gene of one organism into an unrelated one. As a result, a plant may be fooled into accepting messages that turn its leaves a different colour, or promoters may be introduced into fish genes so they will respond in a desired manner when transferred into the cell of a strawberry eg producing a hormone for cold tolerance. While it has become well established in agriculture, genetic engineering is largely at the experimental stage in aquaculture. Most commonly, aquaculturists improve stocks or species by using the sperm of one strain or variety to fertilize the eggs of another. For example, a salmon farmer who wants to produce fish with high oil content may cross-breed a colder water salmon stock with another stock that is adapted to the warmer environment where the offspring are intended to be grown. Genetic engineering offers a speedier road to the same destination. And this from a PBS link: Moving genes across species to produce so-called transgenic life forms seems to many a radical step. One experiment, proposed but never carried out, to splice a flounder gene into a strawberry to protect it from frost, has caught the public imagination. It's the stuff of fear and myth. What have we created, fish or strawberry? I'm not trying to change anyone's minds about this, but I don't like the fear mongering. I want to let scientists experiment in all directions. It doesn't mean that we are going to have a world full of strawberry fish or pork potatoes.

It annoys me that I can't buy Oprah's magazine at a big discount (like I do my other magazines, mostly on eBay), but I'm a big fan of most of the content. O Magazine has some great writers and articles on subjects that interest me. I just wish they would use freelancers. Iowagirl, good for your daughter!! Nannc, I haunt thrift shops all the time. And we do have a Humane Society shop. But those ladies with lots of money live somewhere else. I always laugh because my cousin and I compare notes on our thrift-shop finds. She lives in Connecticut and brings home Prada and Chanel. I'm thrilled if I manage to find the occasional Liz Claiborne. :-)

Believe it or not, that was actually a freebie, including fabricating the listello on site! It's the bathroom in the showroom that gives me most of my work. :-), amd that's nothing, this design is in the floor of that bathroom, and it's COMPLETELY made from harlequinn diamonds, also all made by hand on a wet saw:

I guess there was a movie made about it a long time ago. I put some of it on my facebook page. Did you here one of the guys contradict what that Youtube video was saying? It said they were told the lion wouldn't remember them and they said that wasn't true. They knew the lion would remember them. Still I just loved the way Christian reacted when he saw those two. You should go to youtube and watch some of longer versions. In a couple of them Christian jumps up into their arms. So cute. Very heart warming!