Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gene-splicing, the insertion of foreign genes into plants, animals or microbes. Scientists have, for example, introduced rat-growth- hormone genes into the DNA of mice, resulting in larger mice, and firefly genes into tobacco plants, which then glow in the dark. Genetic engineering cannot, however, "cross" a cow with a frog to produce a new species. "The essence of a particular animal is something you don't change," explains Thomas Wagner, director of Ohio University's Edison Animal Biotechnology Center in Athens, Ohio. "A pig is a pig, and a cow is a cow. You merely enhance certain aspects...
...depends on whether the viewer is a budget-conscious Congressman, an ivory-tower academic, or a headline-grabbing Education Secretary. All agree, however, that higher education is being scrutinized much more closely and that government is willing to make serious cuts into what it once viewed as a sacred cow...
...here, but they left that one standing, because they did not want it to fall on the house." A pride of seven or eight lions lives on his spread. Hall says that the lions do not have a strong appetite for beef, and besides, if they should kill a cow, it is a tax write-off. Twenty years ago, he did have to shoot a lion, one that had killed 46 of his cows. The lion's skin hangs on the living-room wall...
...Boran cattle wear bells that thock and dong and clatter through the forest. The Masai and the cows are so intimately connected that each herdsman knows every cow individually (even, as now, when we are bringing along 140 head) and knows where each will be in the line of march. Moses says the same two white cows always lead the herd, and they do. And the same white cow always comes in last. Moses now and then quite tenderly browses with his hands over one of his animals and pulls off ticks, an act of love. Herding cows is infinitely...
Then, after we have resumed our herding, the notebook again: "Cows (11:54 a.m.) smell lion and start bawling loudly. They smell fresh lion urine. Moses sees it, pts to spot with spear. Still wet. Lions must be downwind from us now. Cow horns all went up exactly at once when they smelled. Hot noon sun. Moses laughing. Cows still afraid, horns up, smelling. WE CHASE THREE LIONS through forest. One growls. They get away thru bush and olive trees. We chase for 150 yds. and they have slipped away. This is somewhat dangerous business...