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...colt is the result of the first successful embryo transfer between two different equine species. A year ago, Veterinarian William R. Foster, who is assistant director of the Louisville Zoo, and Veterinarian Scott D. Bennett of Simpsonville, Ky., synchronized Kelly's reproductive cycle with that of a pregnant Grant's zebra residing at the zoo. Flushing out a ten-day-old embryo from the zebra's uterus with a sterile solution, the two vets implanted it in the womb of the quarter horse. Safely lodged, the embryo gestated for 366 days, slightly longer than the average term...
Foster and Bennett believe that similar feats of embryo transfer will enable the zoo to breed rare equine animals with rapidity. Says Foster: "A zebra's pregnancy normally lasts eleven months. If the embryo is flushed, the female zebra cycles again and can reproduce once more. If we use surrogate recipients, one such zebra can reproduce as many as ten offspring yearly...
...Embryo transfer among members of the same species is not a zoological novelty. First accomplished in 1890 with rabbits, the technique has since succeeded in hundreds of different mammalian species, including humans...
...long-distance-rate cut, the first in 14 years and the biggest ever, marked the beginning of the FCC's major restructuring of telephone charges in the wake of the divestiture. The overall goal is to transfer as much of the phone system's costs as possible to the people who use the specific services. Said FCC Chairman Mark Fowler of the rulings: "We are beginning to eliminate the crazy-quilt pricing that prevailed in a predivestiture world. My hope is that in the next two to three years we will see long-distance rates reduced...
There is general agreement, however, that the issue of radical sections came up this year as a result of the transfer in course leadership, caused by the death of Warburg Professor of Economics Otto Eckstein, long-time helmsman of Ec 10. "It was definitely because of the new blood that the question was raised," Goulder said...