According to New Scientist magazine Dr Goto reckons that if any males are found sperm DNA could be extracted frozen

According to New Scientist magazine, Dr Goto reckons that if any males are found, sperm DNA could be extracted, frozen and returned to Kagoshima University in Japan. He has already demonstrated that DNA from dead bull sperm can be injected into cows’ eggs to produce viable cattle embryos. He believes the same system could also work for mammoths, using elephant eggs.But Adrian Lister, of University College London, is sceptical. He points out that it needs a male carcass whose sperm DNA has survived non-medical freezing and thawing. “Everything we know about preservation of DNA in frozen tissues suggests it’s smashed up into fragments,” he told New Scientist magazine.One thing that Tyrannosaurus rex never had to defend itself against in the past: poachers.But a dinosaur graveyard in Montana is being guarded by the FBI on behalf of scientists who believe they may have unearthed the largest T rex skeleton but are also worried that greedy prospectors may try to steal the bones, which can command thousands of dollars from collectors.The site of the find is in Hell Creek, in eastern Montana, which has a geological formation that makes it famous for preserving dinosaur bones.

For that the team is turning to David Smale, a geophysicist with the consulting engineers Mott McDonald, who will travel to Siberia next summer to use ground-penetrating radar, which can make out the size and shape of buried objects, to find mammoths which may have been trapped and frozen up to 40,000 years ago.
Woolly mammoths lived alongside humans and were widespread until the end of the Ice Age 10,000 years ago cut down their sources of food Six have been found frozen in Siberia. She promised to continue Mary Robinson’s “caring, outreach” role.. A Japanese scientist, Kazufumi Goto, believes mammoth carcasses buried for thousands of years beneath the Siberian permafrost could still have intact sperm and this could be recovered and the DNA used to inseminate African elephants, the mammoths’ closest living relative

But first you need a mammoth. Some 35 FF Dail and Senate members were newly elected this year.
Mrs McAleese, not currently a member, came from behind, winning the second round by 62 votes to 48. Former European Commissioner Michael O’Kennedy came third; 15 O’Kennedy votes defected after carefully planted rumours that he had pulled out. He denied this, but summoned only 21 of the 37 votes earlier pledged.Ms McAleese, 47, an unsuccessful FF candidate in the 1987 Irish general election, offered a vision that addressed an Ireland where “people are not easily pigeon-holed”.

Anti-Reynolds ranks were swelled by fears that, if he won, a subsequent Dail by-election defeat could spark a general election with the Fianna Fail-led government possibly losing power. A spokesman stressed that Caudill was being treated with dignity: “He is being treated as another marine.”. Ireland now faces an intriguing all-woman contest for its presidency after Fianna Fail (FF), its largest party, sprang a surprise by choosing academic Mary McAleese (right) ahead of former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds as their candidate. The marines say they take the case “seriously”, but may come under pressure to finesse charges. He deserted in 1968, in the year of the Tet offensive, as anti-war fervour in America reached its height.”All I want is for them to send Randy home real fast,” said his wife Twylla, a Canadian teacher.Caudill was arrested returning to Canada from one of several visits to his daughter, when a computer check turned up a military arrest warrant. The United States Marine Corps is being forced to confront the ghosts of Vietnam, in the person of 48-year-old Randy Caudill. Arrested last week in a routine border check, nearly 30 years after he deserted the marines and fled to Canada, Caudill awaits his punishment at Camp Pendleton, California, where he served as a 19-year-old radio operator.

If convicted of desertion, he faces five years in a military jail.
The marines pride themselves on being the toughest and truest of the American armed forces, always faithful – “Semper Fidelis” – to their own. But former Private Caudill is a grandfather and a family man, a retired mechanic with serious arthritis. Geoffrey Bowden, author of the report, said: “The savings are extremely modest for the pain and agony that they will put the NHS through.”. Frank Dobson, Secretary of State for Health, has said he expects to see more mergers to reduce duplication of facilities, and provide a more efficient service. But the survey found opposition from nearly every group, both inside and outside trusts. One in six NHS trusts are involved in merger talks with neighbouring trusts but the savings achieved are likely to be overwhelmed by damage to staff morale and opposition from politicians and public, according to a survey.

Even if a third of all trusts merge, twice the number currently considering the move, the savings would be pounds 240m at most, according to the survey conducted jointly by the Health Service Journal and Nexus Structured Communications. Neil Sinden, of the Council for the Protection of Rural England, will tell a national conference of highways engineers that they have a major role in keeping the countryside beautiful. The charity launched its campaign against unnecessary signposts, pylons and advertisements last year. It claims credit for persuading the Government to drop proposals to relax controls over advertisements in rural areas. Mr Sinden will make his plea for co-operation at the Conference on Traffic Signs being organised by the Institute of Highways Incorporated Engineers at Loughborough.. Traffic signs and other roadside paraphernalia are major contributors to a rising tide of clutter in rural areas, traffic planners will be told today.