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DeFOREST, Wisconsin: Move over, Dolly. Make way for Gene, a six-month-old calf a biotechnology company says it created using a new cloning technique...
...ambling, wholly unconcerned, through the field. Sage grouse--a preposterously showy endangered species--strut and preen on the hillside. While Duane tours the scene in his pickup, his son Brad works from the saddle of a quarter horse. They stop to watch as a cow lies down, her calf beginning to emerge. Finally, with perfect timing and great effort, the cow clambers to her feet and lets gravity deliver the newborn. It is motionless. Duane watches closely as the mother licks mucus from its face. At last, the calf shudders to life; Duane smiles. "Now, tell me," he says, sweeping...
...this fable of Gabbeh (Shaghayegh Djodat), a beautiful young woman whose marriage to a dashing horseman her father keeps postponing. Gabbeh means carpet, and the young woman is a kind of textile goddess weaving a spell over the proceedings. She must watch the painful birth of a calf, the playful bickering of an old couple, and the death of a little girl who has chased after lost sheep, as a backdrop to her own desperate longings...
Pinsky writes, in lines that should be famous, that "A country is the things it wants to see,/If so, some part of me, though I do not,/Must want to see these things." A list follows of these things America wants to see: a two headed calf, an out-of-focus blow job, new cars, celebrities, Disney-like animals. Pinsky is not a wimp...
...four Sunnis executed for the Riyadh bombing was Khalid Said, 24. He had grown his beard in the Islamic way and cut his white cotton robe at calf length to symbolize the modesty of the Prophet Muhammad. Like 10,000 other young Saudis, he had signed up for Afghanistan and the holy war against the atheistic Soviets that was vigorously supported by the pious Saudi government. For Said, Afghanistan was akin to attending a university for terrorism and extremism. He learned to use a rifle and to prime explosives. He met militant Muslim activists from throughout the Middle East, listening...