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...Every now and then nature throws up these sorts of things.' RUSSELL SNELL, New Zealand biotech researcher, whose company is breeding cows that give skimmed milk. The herd descends from a single Friesian cow named Marge, which scientists discovered had a rare gene mutation for low-fat, Omega 3-rich milk while testing New Zealand dairy cows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...unspoiled coral. If you rise early and take a short boat ride around Pemba, you might glimpse breaching spinner dolphins. Dry land's no less rewarding. Whether sipping a Pemba punder, a local vodka cocktail, at the side of the pool (exorcised for just two goats and a skinny cow) or savoring sunset cocktails at the jetty bar, the only spirits you'll be in touch with are the distilled kind. www.fundulagoon.com

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spirited Away | 5/29/2007 | See Source »

...stable is better, for there you have a donkey that carries a load and a cow that provides milk. The parliament is worse than a stable.' MALALAI JOYA, female member of the Afghan parliament and longtime critic of fellow legislators whom she deems to be warlords. Joya was suspended after making the comment, in a television interview, that compared parliament to a stable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...stable is better, for there you have a donkey that carries a load and a cow that provides milk. The parliament is worse than a stable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Jun. 4, 2007 | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

Jamestown also was the first place to find a cash cow and an economic system for exploiting it. The Powhatan smoked a crude indigenous species of tobacco. But in 1612, John Rolfe imported seeds of Nicotiana tabacum, the Spanish-American weed that was already a craze in England. By 1620 the colony had shipped almost 50,000 lbs. home. Fifty years later, Virginia and Maryland would ship 15 million lbs. Tobacco and foodstuffs were grown on privately owned farms. Beginning in 1618, old settlers were offered 100 acres of land, and newcomers who paid their way were given 50 acres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamestown: Inventing America | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

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