Word: cowed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...classic “safety school” chant was dusted off. And after a Cornell fan insisted on striking a cowbell in time to the Big Red fans’ clapping, the Crimson fans and band gave a hearty “Cow Town” jeer...
...Australian biotech company creates a creature that is part human, part pig, what law would apply to it? Should a company be allowed to patent a cloned human embryo, then market its cells to help fight disease? What if the embryo is made of human DNA planted in a cow...
Stanley Prusiner discovers prions, the infectious proteins responsible for scrapie and mad-cow disease...
...Jampur's ger sits at the base of a hill to protect it from the wind. Not far away lies a trail of cow skeletons that have been picked clean and now blend seamlessly into the snow. "Those were mine," says Jampur. "They died last winter. There was no meat on the bones, so we just took the skins and left the rest." Inside, his ger is warm and smells like a wet horse. There's a shrine with carved animals and Buddhist prayer maps, and a lightbulb and television are wired to a car battery. For weather reports...
...crush with a cryptic message? A real message? Should it arrive during math or English? Do you think you even have a chance? Thus student groups increase their budgets—and often their ubiquitous social “slush funds”—with the cash cow that is Valentine’s Day. It is the American way, the model on which corporate Valentine’s Day is based, a model many unhappy souls would like to demolish...