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...Awnit. my pet otter is Hadn't. My timid cow is Ardly. As a restraining influence on my pet bear, I just call...
lust what is legal tender in Britain? Answer: anything you can write a check on-even the backside of a cow. So last week, as a 60th anniversary jape in honor of all the years that Punch's leading humorist, A.P. Herbert, has spent with the magazine, two policemen led a cow into Barclays bank with a ?5 check written on its hide. Herbert endorsed bossie and collected his money. The drollery may have seemed a trifle fey, but there was a point to it. Herbert, a former M.P. and a crusader for liberalized divorce laws, is best known...
Vestiges of his childhood and his manic adolescence remain. He can still be persuaded upon occasion to do visceral and sometimes appalling routines like "Cow to the Slaughter" and the "Wolf Man." The days when gambling had become so compulsive that he would place bets on both competing teams are well behind him, but he still takes a shot at the Las Vegas slot machines now and again. Gould remains an energetic sports freak, and a picture of New York Knickerbocker Star Willis Reed is Scotch-taped to his bedroom wall. His conversation is salted with sports slang and four...
...logistics of converting streets into urban malls have been most efficiently worked out by the Germans. In West Germany, as in much of Europe, some city streets follow the meandering paths that cows once took on their way to market. As a result, these streets are exactly two cows wide-one cow each way. The solution has been to turn the streets into permanent Fussgängerstrassen, or "pedestrian streets," by closing them to automotive traffic. About 30 German cities now have pedestrian streets in operation or in planning...
Lactose supplies about 40% of the caloric value of most milks. It is most abundant in human milk, about 7% by volume; the average dairy cow's milk contains 5%. Although lactose is a rich and valuable nutrient, it cannot be metabolized directly by the human system; it must first be broken down by an enzyme called lactase from its original complex sugar form (disaccharide) to two simple sugars, glucose and galactose. Normal babies secrete lactase in abundance and thus have no difficulty in digesting mothers' milk, cows' milk or comparable substitutes...