Word: cowed
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...raises questions about what sort of ideals are represented by mass-produced miniatures like parts of model train sets and cake-decorating figures. In the show, Claire’s charcoal and pastel compositions—one a barnyard scene replete with barn, silo, tractor, cow, pig and rabbits and the other a forest scene with model trees, deer, squirrels and a Boy Scout—are ominously dark and shadowy. The mix of static and lively toy-like figures creates a kind of grotesque fairy-tale scene that is oddly delightful, the most evocative work in the show...
...distances to yield a three-dimensional diagram of the molecule?s shape. That lets biologists understand disease and drug proteins in a whole new way; it was W?thrich?s technique, for example that led to an understanding of the detailed structure of prions, which are involved in Mad Cow disease. It has also been used to help screen new compounds for their potential effectiveness as drugs. And along with Fenn?s and Tanaka?s work, it will make the flood of information flowing from the sequencing of the human genome a bit easier to manage...
...might be adding milk from a cloned cow to our coffee. Scientists, policymakers and others convene in Dallas this week to debate the possibility. That's because farmers and biotech firms are already cloning prize livestock. A National Academy of Sciences report says research vouches for the safety of by-products from cloned animals but calls for more study. If cloned animals end up in the food supply, will consumers know it? Probably not, says one of the report's authors, because "if companies can show that their milk or meat is substantially equivalent to those from noncloned animals...
...further cuts risk encouraging more debt and wasting the Fed's ammunition. Still, some see these worries as tilting at windmills. "I hope I'm wrong," says Roach. He's not alone. AGRICULTURE Let them eat beef It seems like good news, unless you're a cow: 19 months after the foot-and-mouth crisis stopped exports from Britain, the first shipment of beef left Wales, bound for the gourmet market in Holland. Back in 1995 British beef was big business, with 274,000 tons, worth $810 million, shipped around the world. Then BSE, or "mad cow" disease, laid waste...
Your brief report on hunters who may have died from a version of mad-cow disease, "Deadly Feast: Can Venison Kill You?" [Science, Aug. 12], should rightly have been titled "Bambi Gets Even!" I've argued in the past that hunting is not a sport, because if it were, both sides would be comparably matched. But now perhaps it truly can be called a sport--with both hunters and prey having an equal opportunity to kill each other. CHERIE TRAVIS Downers Grove...