Platz is the director of the International Canine Semen Bank in Sandy, Ore., which collected and still preserves a small quantity from Snapper.
At their core, they embody a desire to preserve a small kernel of humanity amid all the waste.
The Science Museum of London preserves a small silver disc, engraved by Cayley, representing the first modern conception of an airplane.
Likewise, they have to keep their face in the public consciousness, while simultaneously endeavouring to preserve a small sense of dignity and mystique.
All the while, they argue passionately among themselves about the correct way to preserve a small pink flower that most people have never heard of.
There's something to be said, then, for complaining about rising costs at this small fraction of institutions: it's emotionally satisfying, and it preserves a small and valuable part of the system.
Even after the government bowed to political pressure and agreed to preserve a small piece of the burial plot, the effort to rebury the remains bogged down in wrangling over the details.
But so is tradition, preserving a small family-run business, fending off conglomerates and producing the same sort of product for which Washington requested the recipe and that Lincoln sold at his tavern in Springfield, Ill.
A master innovator, Smith was perhaps best identified with the four-corner offense (developed earlier by John McLendon), which was designed to run time off the game clock to preserve a small lead; this strategy was so successful that it later led to the adoption of a shot clock in collegiate basketball.
Although Mr. Freeman assigns most of the population of Washington, D.C., into a new state with portions of Virginia and Maryland, he preserves a small region consisting of the National Mall, major monuments and federal buildings "set off as the seat of the federal government", as might be required under the Constitution.
