Panda baby boom(let)! [link]

WASHINGTON - Zookeepers in Atlanta and San Diego are hopeful their giant pandas are pregnant, which would create a record U.S. baby boomlet of the rare species that began this month with the birth of a cub at the National Zoo.

The possibility of three U.S.-born cubs in the same year reflects the coming of age of the giant pandas on loan from China in the past several years as well as a burst of scientific knowledge on producing and caring for their offspring. Artificial insemination techniques are more precise; pregnancy tests are more accurate; and the odds of a fragile newborn surviving are improving dramatically.

Do you still have to mark Air Mail on international mail? Does anything still go by boat?

Also, is there a French equivalent of Ms.? Or is it just Mme/Mlle?

Do Gale Harold and Nathon Fillion resemble each other in a weird way? I am attracted to Gale Harold (or rather Brian Kinney), but not so much to Mal, but in my head they look so similar!

Sophia, I never noticied it, but I have a friend who pinged it as soon as she started watching Firefly.

In other news, I will simply reproduce this email I just got from a friend:

Stuff + Cats = Awesome (per this website)

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Even though I am very kind and have lived with both of my cats for most of their lives -- they STILL would never let me put anything on them while they slept.

They would wake up.

The picture with the baby is priceless.

Hey, CBS is going to be airing some Veronica Mars.

I'm not a huge cat person, but man do I find annoyed looking cats funny.

Or maybe that "but" should be a "so"?

The pizza box stack on the cat was great.