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...very least, I thought he might shake up the system in this election. I was willing to give him some serious consideration come November. But his wimpy July exit from the race squelched my sentiment faster than a tractor wheel could squash a cow pattie...
...skin to bone marrow) and more or less expendable. A 16-cell bovine embryo can be divided into four equal groups of four cells each, cultured for a few more days, and then redivided to yield 16 identical cell clusters, each of which will grow into a genetically interchangeable cow...
Sales in the music department have fallen, facing competition from monster retailers HMV and Tower Records have fallen. At the same time, the department that sells Harvard insignia merchandise--the Coop's cash cow--has flourished. Textbooks, which most students associate with the Coop, have never been a big money maker...
...link has not been proved yet, and the researchers know that genetics also plays a crucial role. So too may other environmental factors, including chemicals. But if the cow's milk connection is established -- and it will take five to 10 years of research -- eliminating milk from infants' diets might dramatically cut the incidence of this severest form of diabetes...
When a blood-hungry mosquito lands on a human forearm -- or, more likely, on the eyelid of a cow, the haunch of a squirrel, the wing of a roosting bird or even the back of a caterpillar -- she goes to work with awesome efficiency. Her slender proboscis, consisting of two sharp and sometimes serrated cutting % tools surrounding a pair of tiny tubes, pierces the skin (and, if necessary, the cloth or feathers protecting it) and finds a capillary, bending to slide into the tiny blood vessel. Down one tube comes her saliva, which deadens sensation and blocks coagulation...