Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...animals: cuddly, light brown bundles of fluff that kiss (to identify each other) and wag their tails. To farmers and ranchers of the Plains states, prairie dogs are a major nuisance: they feast on valuable grasslands and dig hidden burrows that can break the leg of a horse or cow...
...maelstrom, investigators at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta are trying to get to the bottom of the mystery. In the past decade, there have been outbreaks of premature thelarche in the Middle East and Italy. In the Middle East, the condition was traced to milk from a cow that had been getting DES injections; in Italy it was linked to contaminated beef. But the cause is not always dietary, and symptoms often disappear within a year, whether or not diet is altered. "The list of conditions that can cause this is fairly lengthy," says CDC Epidemiologist...
Tough being a cow. Since 1969 there have been 10,000 killed and mutilated in the Western states. That is documented. Thereafter, speculation begins. Is this the work of religious cults? Little green men from Mars? Endangered Species opts for paranoia. It is all the product of a right-wing conspiracy that needs livers to test chemical-warfare agents. If you take the sensible view that any plot requiring more than three people to keep their mouths shut is bound to fail, this premise will seem far fetched. For as the story develops, we see that hundreds are involved...
...diaries begin in 1941, when Cow ard was 41, and end in 1969, three years before he died of a heart attack at Firefly, his beloved home in Jamaica. There are long, flat passages, and many entries are no more interesting than last year's society column. But these stretches are as much a part of a life, even a life like Coward's, as the glittering ones, and the diaries should be read whole or not at all. Coward was not a butterfly but a worker bee. During his 73 years, he turned out more than...
...Harvard is forgetting another tested political adage. It's a lot easier politically not to give than to take away. Harvard's spurning of the third world center request wasn't killing a sacred cow so much as refusing to establish a new one. RUS and the Clearinghouse, on the other hand, are traditions, remnants of an activist era still remembered fondly. The University obviously feels anxious to do away with such nettlesome relics. But in picking a fight with Harvard's women, instead of being satisfied with the status quo, it may be getting into its own Vietnam...