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SOME FAVOR LESS obvious alterations. They have suggested that man be given the genes to produce a two-compartment stomach (a cow has four) that could digest cellulose; that mutation could be advantageous if man fails to increase his food supplies fast enough to feed the planet's growing population, but superfluous if he does. They also want man programmed to regenerate other organs, such as he now does with the liver, so that he can repair his damaged or diseased heart or lungs if necessary...
Since arriving in Buon Kli B relocation site, the Montagnards have lost virtually all of the remaining livestock. Only one cow was visible during a walking tour of Buon Wing A. one of the four hamlets at the site, and it appeared to be sick. When asked where their livestock was, people answered that they had all died...
...married in the morning and voted in the afternoon. A 110-year-old woman was carried by her great-grandson. Women frequently outnumbered the men, and some bore babies in their arms. Others appeared in their finest saris and jewelry. Sweetmeat vendors did a brisk business. When a cow gave birth to a calf outside a polling booth, everyone hailed it as a good omen. Officials of the New Congress Party, whose symbol is a cow nursing a calf, immediately ordered a shed erected...
...half, of course, a cow...
...Gandhi reminds voters to look for the New Congress Party's symbol on the ballot. Since perhaps 70% of the voters are illiterate, all parties use symbols (see above), and some ballots bear a score or more. Given the importance of the sacred cow in Hinduism, the New Congress symbol could hardly be more effective-a cow and a calf...