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...only modest gains. Clinicians will be able to delay onset by several years and lessen the severity of symptoms. But by 2025, control could come to resemble a cure. For Alzheimer's has something in common with other brain disorders such as Parkinson's, Huntington's and mad-cow disease. Like them, it appears to be caused by misfolded proteins--in this case, beta amyloid and tau. And so one day in the 21st century it may become possible to vanquish Alzheimer's with a vaccine that targets these miscreants, or a new class of drugs that prevents them from...
Unfortunately, this isn't just a matter of productive capacity. Mass production of meat has also become a staggering source of pollution. Maybe cow pies were once just a pastoral joke, but in recent years livestock waste has been implicated in massive fish kills and outbreaks of such diseases as pfiesteria, which causes memory loss, confusion and acute skin burning in people exposed to contaminated water. In the U.S., livestock now produce 130 times as much waste as people do. Just one hog farm in Utah, for example, produces more sewage than the city of Los Angeles. These megafarms...
...chose him to prepare a dinner for 2025 that would be good for the body--and the planet. In his tasty menu, liver pate gives way to lentil pate, steak is replaced by tofu cutlet and a banana-and-ice-cream dessert is made with rice milk instead of cow's milk. Lanza's critter-free meal has less than half the calories of a meat-heavy dinner and a third of the total fat. And lest you think meat-free eating means protein-free eating, the percentage of calories from protein in Lanza's meal is the same...
...arrived at the Middle East Club at 7 p.m. on October 18, planning to interview Chicago rocker Wesley Willis, a 6'5", 300+ pound schizophrenic whose most popular song is either "The Chicken Cow" or "I Wupped Batman's Ass." He head-butted me and told me to come back...
...action occurred in between numbers. The rowdy crowd shouted out a string of requests, the most prominent being "I Wupped Batman's Ass." He reacted strongly to most of the requests, and the audience kept egging him on so he would shout something like "Screw my nuts" or "Chicken Cow my ass," which occurred fairly regularly. This obscene element seemed to be the most attractive to most of the crowd, myself included. Near the end of the show, a small group of people walked by me on their way out. One woman wasn't ready to leave...