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Now she is happy, less $50,000 and her house, and possessor of five cloned Booger puppies.

"It is a miracle for me because I was able to smile again, laugh again and just feel alive once further," McKinney told a news colloquy in the South Korea capital to show off the week-old black puppies — all of whose names include the word Booger.

They are the work of the biotech concern RNL Bio, affiliated with the South Korean lab which produced the world's highest cloned dog and is staffed with former associates of disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk.

She sold her house in the United States to raise the $50,000 for RNL scientists to change position skin cells taken from Booger in the presence of he died two years ago into embryos carried by couple substitute dogs for two months until giving birth to the puppies endure week.

"I had to make sacrifices and I dream of the day, some day when everyone can yield to clone their darling because losing a pet is a terrible, horrible loss to anyone."

After rescuing him from a shelter 12 years ago, Booger had become an needful part of her period of life, said the 57-year-old Californian.

The lab said it hoped to be of advantage its technology more commercial along with its program to clone sniffer dogs for the Korean customs good.

"As of today, we are at the stage of receiving the sacred profession from anywhere in the world," RNL CEO Ra Jeongchan said.

RNL has said it expected to clone about 100 dogs nearest year and for the price to drop as technology improves.

Hwang has been on essay for more than two years on charges of breaking the law on inquiry ethics and for misusing explain funds and private donations.

RNL's research staff is made up of scientists who stayed behind when Hwang left the prestigious Seoul National University after his research results were found to be fraudulent.

Dogs are considered one of the more difficult mammals to clone because their reproductive circle of time includes difficult-to-predict ovulations.

(Reporting by Reuters TV; Writing by Jack Kim; Editing by Jonathan Thatcher and David Fox)

Its stash may soon be bigger than Microsoft’s. But should all those billions hold out to lie dormant?

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Apple Inc. (AAPL) shareholders harbor’t had much to carp about, with the stock up 1,474% considering 2003. But if there is one complaint, it’s the company’s refusal to do anything with the $20.8 billion in cash and short-term investments it has socked off. The money just sits there, earning little added than the average savings explanation. "Our preference is to maintain a vigorous balance sheet in order to preserve our flexibility," Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer told investors earlier this year.

Apple’s about to get a lot else flexible. While it has been adding round $1 billion in cash reaped ground quarter, analysts predict the company’s hoard could surge to nearly $30 billion over the next year for the cause that of strong sales of computers, iPods, and iPhones. Apple may accurately pass Microsoft (MSFT), which has $23.7 billion in cash. "[Apple] could have $40 billion in the bank [in two years]," says analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray (PJC).

The steep accumulation may not be perceptible to investors. One understanding is the way Apple accounts in the place of iPhone sales. It books the revenue from each iPhone over 24 months because the phones are sold as part of a subscription through AT&T (T) and other carriers. But Apple gets altogether the money as in a short time as customers buy, in such a manner cash hits the balance sheet long in advance of revenues show up. A second reason is Apple appears to exist getting more for each iPhone than analysts expected. While AT&T and others charge customers $200 for the entry-level model, more analysts now estimate the carriers pay Apple $500 to $600 a phone for the right to order users lucrative service fees.

If Apple’s stock keeps rising, pressure from investors to fare more with its cash will be left behind muted. Still, some experts think it makes sense for the company to occasion changes, given its hefty bank account. They say Apple could seek again acquisitions, probably small ones, to hasten its expansion into new businesses. "Valuations are low, and Apple has the marketing horsepower" to turn promising technologies into hits, says Murray M. Beach, managing director at investment bank TM Capital.

One radical possibility would be for Apple to snap up content. Some analysts think the company should explore acquisitions in the music business, taking advantage of the major labels’ destructive straits. Though that may originate conflicts, Apple could use its knowledge of shoppers to occasion innovative sales incentives and promote novel acts. "The music industry has come to believe that their industry choose be smaller," says single source grapple to Apple. "Apple wants it to be a bigger, more profitable industry." Apple declined to comment.

Apple has many options beyond mergers and acquisitions. With prices for raw materials skyrocketing, American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu thinks Apple should stipulate funds so its suppliers can stock up near the front of prices rise more. Apple could also take equity stakes in startups moving onward technologies important to its future. For example, Apple has a glaring need for preferable batteries for its just discovered iPhone.

What if Apple simply keeps stuffing its mattress? Analyst Charles Wolf of Needham & Co. figures the copartnership doesn’t need more than $5 billion on chirography, but he says investors aren’t likely to complain. "I’d say a thing grant that this was a sleepy company with no growth," says Wolf. "That’s not Apple."

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The surgery Monday night “lasted approximately four and a half hours including recovery and he is in good ardent spirits and was visiting with family members this morning,” Donna Lee, Freeman’s publicist, said in a statement Tuesday.

“He was walking this (forenoon), and is looking presumptuous to his release as soon as possible,” Lee reported.

Freeman, 71, and Demaris Meyer, 48, of Memphis, Tenn., were taken to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis following the accident on a ebon stretch of rural Mississippi Delta highway in Tallahatchie County.

State troopers said the car careened off the high-road and flipped end-over-end before landing upright in a ditch. Rescuers used a jaws-of-life machine to free “The Dark Knight” star and Meyer from the wreckage of the car.

Freeman was airlifted around 90 miles to the Regional Medical Center where he was treated for a rough provide, broken elbow and protuberance damage, Lee said.

Bill Rogers, a retired police officer, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he witnessed the accident near the small town of Charleston, not far from where Freeman owns a home by his wife.

Rogers said Freeman complained of pain from injuries before being loaded onto a medical helicopter, but “was more concerned about the people around him than himself.”

“Mr. Freeman thought he may have gone to sleep but he wasn’t sure,” Rogers said. “He didn’t know what happened.”

“The car was bent on the front as well as rear — I sordid fiercely,” Rogers said. “It was so scurvy I couldn’t number what it was.”

The Mississippi Highway Patrol is still investigating the accident, Sgt. Ben Williams said Tuesday. Alcohol and drugs don’t appear to be a factor and no citations are suitable to be filed, he said.

Hospital spokeswoman Kathy Stringer reported Freeman remained in serious predicament Tuesday. Meyer’s name wasn’t in the hospital recording, Stringer said. However, under medical seclusion laws, people can request that their names not have being listed as patients at a hospital.

Williams said Meyer was in the Memphis hospital when the Highway Patrol checked Monday night and both she and Freeman were in “good spirits.”

Rogers said he was “sleeplessness television concerning 11:15 and I heard a car sliding put on the highway aloud in front of our abode.”

“As I looked out the window, I saw it began to flip after it hit our next-door neighbor’s drive. It went end-over-end about twice and at another time it came hindmost on its wheels in the ditch. It was a mess,” he said.

Rogers said Freeman and Meyer were in brief unconscious when he got to the vehicle. Freeman was driving Meyer’s 1997 Nissan Maxima, authorities said.

Freeman won every Oscar for his role in “Million Dollar Baby.” His protection credits also embody “Driving Miss Daisy” and “The Bucket List.”