Word: blood
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...hundred miles away in New Haven, the prospect of menstrual blood and zygote parts is raising eyebrows. Aliza Shvarts, a Yale arts student, ignited a media firestorm last week when she refused to acknowledge that her senior art project, in which she sought to regularly conceive and abort a slew of fetuses over the course of nine months, had actually been a hoax.Shvarts, a senior in Yale’s Davenport College, claims to have assembled a number of “fabricators” for her project who, at regular intervals in the last year, provided her with sperm...
...taste and texture indistinguishable from real chicken flesh to non-meat-eaters and meat-eaters alike.” However, recreating tissue as complex as muscle is no simple task. A piece of chicken that is indistinguishable from real chicken would have flesh, fats, connective tissue, and perhaps even blood vessels and neurons. Therein lies the problem. If it looks like chicken and tastes like chicken, then why isn’t it chicken?The answer that PETA offers is that since no whole animals are killed, the eating of in vitro meat is not a problem. This technicality raises...
...former general counsel, William Haynes, pushed for convictions, asking, "If we've been holding these guys for so long, how can we explain letting them get off?" And he will accuse Air Force Brigadier General Thomas Hartmann, senior legal adviser to the tribunal, of demanding "sexy" cases with "blood on them" to drum up public support for convictions. "There is no question they wanted me to stage show trials that have nothing to do with the centuries-old tradition of military justice in America," Davis tells TIME...
...absolute certainty will occur is still one we improvise? Do we lower our voices, dress in black, save a lock of hair as the Victorians did and wove into jewelry? Do you let young children see a corpse--the very word suddenly cold and empty because his flesh and blood no longer matter, his meaning filling the space once his presence is gone? "Is that Grandpa?" our 4-year-old wondered. "No, honey," my husband told her. "He's not here anymore. That's just his body." She worked at this, how the arms that held...
...superstrong and superfast, he can hear people's thoughts, and he does not breathe or sleep or age. His skin is cold, and when exposed to the sun, he doesn't burn--he glitters. Edward and the Cullens aren't ordinary vampires: they have renounced human blood on moral grounds, feeding instead on wild animals, which they hunt by night. He and Bella are instantly, overwhelmingly attracted to each other, but he is also wildly hungry for her blood...