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...scientists like Joseph LeDoux of New York University who uncovered these cerebral pathways. LeDoux's parents owned a meat market. As a boy in Louisiana, he first learned about his future specialty by cutting up cows' brains for sweetbreads. "I found them the most interesting part of the cow's anatomy," he recalls. "They were visually pleasing--lots of folds, convolutions and patterns. The cerebellum was more interesting to look at than steak." The butchers' son became a neuroscientist, and it was he who discovered the short circuit in the brain that lets emotions drive action before the intellect gets...
Still, Harvard boasts 41 varsity sports, the most of any U.S. college. Throw in about 25 club sports and the athletic options at Harvard are very large. Sorry, there is no cow-tipping team yet, but they're working...
...Democrats in Congress have been watching Gingrich's war games with mixed feelings. The optimists in the party are hoping that by taking on so sacred a cow as Medicare, while proposing tax cuts that seem to help wealthier Americans disprortionately, the G.O.P. is inviting accusations that it lacks fairness and compassion. Republicans point to polls showing that for the first time since before the 1994 elections, Democrats are running even with Republicans in terms of public confidence, and for one reason: among voters over 65, the Democrats lead by 28 points. "This is one of those defining issues that...
...involving multiple stages of evolutionary change. The skeletons of fish, with their slender bones arrayed all in a row, are clearly ill suited for walking and running. Moreover, the muscles of fish are designed to deliver power in all the wrong places. "Think about tucking into a tetrapod [a cow, for instance] for Sunday lunch," says Coates. "The best cuts are the thighs and shoulders, the muscle motors that drive these animals along. In a fish these motors are pathetic, tiny things. It's the back and tail muscles that propel it through the water...
...hands. Absent from that list: a pair of $585 leather-handled rose shears from Hermes; a $1,995 vip Robotic Solar Mower that cuts the lawn while you watch from a $595 replica of the benches at Giverny; and a Poopet, a lump of cow manure sculpted by the Pennsylvania Amish into "functional fecal friends" that will "nurture and decorate your garden for years to come." These are available in many shapes, including rabbits, skunks and an amphibian, which they call a "large stool toad." Price: as much as $13 per Poopet...