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Biotech firm Allerca says it has successfully produced the world's first hypoallergenic cat, which can provide a pet option to the 30% of people who suffer from cat allergies. The company managed to selectively breed the special cats by reducing a certain type of protein that triggers allergic reactions. Despite the high cost of nearly $4,000 per cat, there is already a substantial waiting list for the pets, which will be available to customers in 2007.

DEFINITION: (noun) A short, warm outer jacket. SYNONYMS: lumber jacket. USAGE: She insisted that he wear a formal coat to the concert, but he was most content in his old, worn lumberjack.

Although Shostakovich was the most popular Soviet composer of his generation, he was denounced several times by the authorities and had his work banned during his lifetime. He used traditional forms in his music, which is accessibly tonal, yet distinctly 20th century. His response to life in the USSR has been the subject of much political and musical controversy, though it is generally agreed that he was nationalistic. What was Stalin's opinion of Shostakovich's compositions?

Balboa was a Spanish conquistador and founder of the Panamanian colony of Darién, the 1st permanent European settlement in the mainland of the Americas. He crossed the Isthmus of Panama in search of gold, reaching the Pacific Ocean after a 25-day expedition. Then, carrying both his sword and an image of the Virgin Mary, Balboa waded into the water and laid claim to the Pacific and all of its adjoining lands. What did he call the Pacific Ocean?

Cummings was an American writer and painter whose poetry was noted for its eccentricities of typography, language, and punctuation. His publishers often mirrored his atypical style by writing his name in lower case, though Cummings did not endorse this. Many of his poems are sonnets that seek to convey a joyful, living awareness of sex and love. Cummings' celebrated work, The Enormous Room, recounts his experiences where?