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Kenneth White, a Utah State University professor who cloned the world鈥檚 first racing horses. Idaho Gem and Idaho Star finished third and seventh respectively in an eight-horse race at the 20th annual Winnemucca Mule Races, Show & Draft Horse Challenge (, 5 June)
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Joy Phumaphi, assistant director-general of the World Health Organization, criticising the practice of genital cutting, traditionally performed on girls in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. The WHO last week called for the practice to be stamped out (, 2 June)
鈥淐hina has created the world鈥檚 leading force in artificially inducing rain to relieve droughts and fight fires.鈥�
China鈥檚 official news agency Xinhua on the country鈥檚 hopes to use cloud-seeding technologies, including rockets, artillery and aircraft, to produce 50 billion cubic metres of extra rain each year (4 June)
鈥淲e don鈥檛 get very much animal activity here, but we鈥檙e delighted Mike survived.鈥�
Tony Williams, general manager of a recycling plant at Sandycroft, Flintshire, UK, after discovering that a pet hamster called Mike, which had arrived in some rubbish, had passed through a shredding machine unscathed (The Daily Telegraph, London, 2 June)
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Accounting professor Tom Robinson of Palmetto Bay, Florida, who has emerged from DNA analysis of 25,000 people as the first known Caucasian descendant of the 13th-century warlord Genghis Khan (The Boston Globe, 5 June)