Word: cowed
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With fears of mad cow lingering, it's a relief to learn that we probably don't have to worry about a related condition--chronic wasting disease--that afflicts deer and elk. In a survey of death certificates in infected areas, Colorado scientists found no increase in human deaths attributable to the disease...
Self-satisfied students immediately scorned the inane hippie agitators, who just didn’t get that eating chicken and wearing cow is the natural order. Sure, nobody favors animal abuse, but according to many students, theatrical stunts like the recent “love-in” won’t convince anyone to go cold turkey on meat. It’s certainly disappointing that so many Harvard students, who ostensibly favor justice and fairness, hastily dismissed a group promoting those exact ideals...
...this conflict.” In a billboard suggesting that milk causes cancer, former New York City Mayor Rudi Giuliani (then ailing from prostate cancer) was depicted with a milk moustache next to the bolded words, “Got Milk?” And during the first Mad Cow scare, a PETA executive mused that America’s meat-eaters would get what they deserved if the disease reached American shores...
Sportscasters weren’t the only category of bizarre names thought up by the Harvard rowers. Other aliases included Gordon Bombay, Sea Cow...
...career switch. A trained veterinarian, Hwang teamed up with gynecologist Dr. Moon Shin Yong, a gynecologist and leading fertility expert, after Dolly the sheep was cloned in Scotland in 1996. Part of the work was aimed at creating better livestock: in 1999 they cloned a high-yielding dairy cow in Korea, and last December they announced the successful cloning of a cow resistant to mad-cow disease. But they were also looking at how cloning could benefit humans. Their team has cloned miniature pigs whose organs could potentially be used for transplant to humans. But cloning a human embryo...