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...report in the New England Journal of Medicine says the culprit may be cow's milk, and the process a bizarre case of mistaken identity. Doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto found that the diabetics had a much higher than normal level of antibodies to a protein in cow's milk called bovine serum albumin; their bodies have targeted the protein as an invader to be destroyed. By a terrible coincidence, a section of this milk protein is almost identical to a protein on the surface of insulin-producing cells. When these people are sensitized to milk...
This could seem like a terminal display of down-home misogyny. Women treat men like cow patties; men get even writing country music. But Lovett touches on more elemental issues: religion and death. Religion can make you laugh, as in Church, where a ravenous minister eats "a great white dove from up above." And death can offer solace. In Since the Last Time, a man at his own funeral is happy "Seeing all those people I ain't seen/Since the last time somebody died...
...that homosexuals were unhappy. Not that homosexuality was in any way "bad." Practicing gay sex can indeed be dangerous. So can practicing heterosexual sex. That doesn't make either "bad." Being a police officer can be dangerous, too. Peninsula thinks homosexuality is "unnatural"? Who cares? So is Astroturf. And cow manure is natural. Peninsula's writers should think carefully before the equate their version of "unnatural" with...
...goes well, until Eve (Jessica Walling) awakens from her lifeless sleep, a symbol of her creation by God. She has the uncanny ability to call thing by their correct names; what Adam calls a `four-pronged white squirter', she instinctively calls a cow. Her superior knowledge disturbs Adam, but he reassures himself by flaunting his comic abilities--all of which has nothing to do with terrible fate, bit it gives levity to the otherwise grim storyline...
...exclaims Dennis Avery, director of Global Food Issues for the Hudson Institute, a think tank in Indianapolis. "It establishes Rifkin as the Stephen King of food horror stories." Among other things, Rifkin raises the specter of beef contaminated with viruses, including a bovine immunodeficiency virus that he provocatively labels "COW AIDS," though there is no evidence that the virus can infect humans. Rifkin also charges that inspection of carcasses is shoddy, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture flatly denies. However, even the American Meat Institute allows that the inspection system, which still relies on visually examining and touching meat, hasn...