Word: cowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this Georgia town, food scientist Michael Doyle looked inside a cow's stomach for a way to kill E. coli 0157:H7, the mutant microbe blamed in the recall of 25 million pounds of ground beef over the summer...
...ground has not been a cash cow for Princeton, producing only three touchdowns all season. To put this in perspective, Harvard's junior tailback Chris Menick and sophomore quarterback Rich Linden ran into the endzone three times each in just the Holy Cross game...
...evolution. There are modules for stereo vision and manual dexterity, for understanding numbers and grammatical speech, for sexual jealousy and romantic love. Don't think of them as "detachable, snap-in components," he cautions. They're not visible to the naked eye "like the rump steak on the supermarket cow display." A mental module, he says, "probably looks more like roadkill, sprawling messily over the bulges and crevasses of the brain...
...year-old coat-check girl and a pianist who plays Deep Purple and the waitresses have names like Agnes and Gladys and the menu harks back to the Age of Steak; a place where a fiftyish couple can enjoy a Manhattan and tuck into a chunk of cow and au gratin potato. Murray's serves the Silver Butter Knife Steak for Two. That's the special, and it's been around since I was learning to read--I saw it advertised on billboards around town. I'd form the words MURRAY'S and SILVER BUTTER KNIFE STEAK phonetically...
...cow probably had a hard enough time jumping over one moon, never mind two. Yet there is a good chance, according to a new paper appearing in the journal Nature, that the moon we know so well once had a sister...