Word: cowing
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...integrate the student body, he integrated the staff instead and began teaching French to fourth-graders. When his sons wanted to swim in the all-white community pool, he told them to do it. And when young Keith showed an early fondness for dissection, he brought home a cow's heart from the local slaughterhouse. "He was the ultimate educator," Black recalls. "He instilled in us an attitude that there is nothing that you cannot...
...semi-retired. He dresses in a simple white dhoti and lives frugally. "I only need money for the barber and occasionally the tailor," he says, laughing. He rises at 4:30 a.m., milks his cow and prays until breakfast time. Only then does he resume his ongoing effort to improve the Jaipur foot and create new artificial limbs that will be as real and useful as humanly possible...
...says the Net's not a cash cow? Web stocks have been milking Wall Street. Search firm Yahoo!, for example, is up 325% this year, to a $2.2 billion market value. Estimated 1998 profits: $14 million. Can it last? Who knows, but perhaps the firm should rename itself. How about Yippee...
There was a self-serving side to all this, of course. Hollywood stars would like nothing better than to cow the press into docility, thus clearing the way for nonstop coverage of their thriving careers, happy home lives and unflagging concern for the spotted owl. Yet in this instance, Hollywood perfectly tapped into the public mood. The week of mourning that followed Diana's death also saw an outpouring of revulsion at paparazzi tactics, prompting a fresh round of self-appraisal by publications that use their photos and, tacitly at least, condone their excesses...
Assertions that it does are based on a tiny grain of scientific truth. Shark cartilage--and cow cartilage, for that matter--does contain minute quantities of a compound that inhibits blood-vessel growth, and tumors depend on the rapid growth of internal blood vessels that can feed them. But this substance is locked up in the cartilage and doesn't leak out to the rest of the body. To extract it, scientists have to soak huge amounts of cartilage in harsh chemicals for weeks at a time...