The City Council has approved a new annual tax on tobacco-sellers, with proceeds to to support police stings on underage smoking, the P-T reports. I’m sure they mean well, our councillors, but, damn, really: nothing else police could be doing? This is the biggest scourge in the city? Kids with tobacco sticks?
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Cloning our cousins
A researcher in Oregon has made a breakthrough that ensures the state will never run short of monkeys. Dr. Shoukrat Mitalipov of the Oregon National Primate Research Center has created dozens of clone monkey embryos. It’s the first successful cloning of such a complex animal.

Smoke ‘em Drink ‘em if you got ‘em
Like Frankenstein’s monster, maybe it wasn’t evil, maybe it was just misunderstood– because scientists working at the cutting edge of knowledge (which is apparently in Sunnyvale, CA) have discovered a new use for an old menace: nicotine.