Word: bulling
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...warning to all: it's a good idea to be polite to citizens of Eagle. Otherwise, you may find yourself with a mouthful of bull testicles...
Imagine a mouse impregnating a rat, a bull impregnating a horse, a deer impregnating an elephant. Imagine a man fathering a child--or 100 children--a century after his death. Sound preposterous? Think again. A team of scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center has taken the first tiny steps toward scenarios at least as bizarre, and perhaps even more so. Writing in the current issue of Nature Medicine, the researchers report that they have frozen spermatogonial stem cells--the cells that make sperm--thawed them and coaxed them back to life...
Similarly, a commercially valuable animal--a champion bull or a prize hog, for example--could keep producing sperm indefinitely, even after death, using lesser specimens as surrogate spermmakers. Stem cells also give rise to new stem cells, which can then be harvested and frozen in turn. As a result, says Pennsylvania veterinary physiologist Ralph Brinster, a co-author of both studies, "we can make any individual male biologically immortal...
...think this is bull; that this stops with Dean Epps or Dean [of the College Harry R.] Lewis ['68]," King says. "My sense is that something with this high stakes, there's got to be involvement at higher levels...
Last week in Sicily, Italian police arrested the country's top Mafioso, Giovanni Brusca, leading many Americans to wonder, Do Italian mobsters have colorful nicknames the way well-known U.S. mobsters do, like Vincent ("The Chin") Gigante and Salvatore ("Sammy the Bull") Gravano? In fact, Brusca is known as "The Pig." Other examples of Sicilian nomenclature...