Word: ewing
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...YORK: An unsettling bit of science fiction crossed over into reality Monday morning in the form of Dolly, an embraceable ewe with an incredible past: She was an exact genetic copy of another lamb. News of the first-ever cloning of a mammal sent stock in the small Scottish biotech company responsible soaring as investors drooled (whole herds of the same prizewinning cow!) over the possibilities. More cautious types pointed out that this procedure could presumably, uh, be used to make copies of humans, which opens up an extremely large ethical can of worms. Ian Wilmut, one of the scientists...
...potatoes, potatoes and, essentially, more potatoes. Except one night when we tried a strange Siberian delicacy: ewe...
...committed only one small gaffe. Presented with a set of small silver bowls, she instinctively flipped one over to check the hallmark. She avoided the same mistake later, when a group of Welsh farmers presented her with two other gifts: Sandra, a seven-month-old heifer, and a ewe. "I am sorry there is only one of her," said the pleased Charles at one point. "I haven't got enough wives to go around...
...extension will be earth-filled and level to the terrace, Jackson said, adding that workmen will move several ewe trees behind the terrace to make room...
...perhaps. Visiting a sheep farm in Argyll, Scotland, Britain's Prince Charles volunteered to shear a sheep with electric clippers as he had been taught as a schoolboy in Australia. As far as the Highland sheep was concerned, the Prince of Wales' approach was definitely non-ewe. It lunged between his legs and left him looking, well, sheepish. Worse, said Charles: "I was really worried about those horns. That sheep nearly ruined the dynasty...