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...symbol on our state flag is a golden bear," Governor Ronald Reagan told Californians. "It is not a cow to be milked." With that, Reagan turned from animal husbandry to husbanding the state's sorely strained resources. In his first month in office, he helped fire the state university's president, proposed that students pay tuition (see Education), and outlined a budget of reduced state services...
...insisted that under the constitution the issue was one for the states to decide separately, but offered to set up a national panel to study the situation. But nothing has placated the Hindu extremists. Naked sadhus rampaged in the shadow of Parliament as part of the national "All Party Cow Protection Movement," and two holy men have vowed to fast to the death unless she bows to their demand. Last week, after two months of hunger, both men were very weak. When false rumors of the death of one began to circulate, angry Hindu mobs rioted in Hyderabad in southern...
...among the Sant's followers noted that he had seemed overly eager to escape martyrdom. The whole deal, they suggested, was prearranged. But whether it was or not, Indira was clearly the winner. Lately she has been showing a tendency to buckle under public protest involving everything from cow slaughter to government control of gold merchants. This time she showed that she can also stand firm-at least until after next month's elections...
Enter the radioisotope "cow." A simple device first developed at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, it takes advantage of the fact that many long-lived radioactive substances can produce short-lived radioactive offspring. The cow consists of an open-ended test tube with various layers of alumina and specially treated glass through which the parent substance is filtered. In the case of a parent such as molybdenum-99 (half-life: 2.8 days), technetium-99m (half-life: 6 hours) is produced, and it accumulates at the bottom of the tube (the cow's udder). The milked technetium can therefore be created...
...game wardens, seven hunters and a cow...