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...that despite the scope of these diseases, veterinary researchers know next to nothing about what causes them or how to cure them. Only 23 of the hundreds of known disorders can currently be picked up by genetic lab tests. Biologists know far more about the heredity of the fruit fly, in fact, than they do about canine genetics. That is because there are fewer than 100 canine geneticists in the world, working at just a handful of major universities -- and they are constantly scraping for funding...
...ports arrive daily, and airplanes disgorge businessmen, missionaries and a small army of development experts $ who, it is hoped, will eventually disburse more than some $645 million in financial aid from international lenders. The capital's sidewalks are bristling with vendors. Mango growers have sold $600,000 worth of fruit abroad, and orange peels destined to flavor Grand Marnier are again drying in the midday...
...admit that I was pretty disappointed when Javert from "Les Miserables" jumped to his death before he could bump off that irritating fruit, Jean Vajean. And I always wished that the Von Trapp family could have come to a more, say, creative, end. I also have to admit that I really liked "Galaxy...
...land. Chrysanthou and Kizilyurek don't press the point, but it is clear that the palm tree represents the future of Cyprus as they would like to see it: acknowledging the memory of the past, but looking towards the future, watered by both Greeks and Turks, and someday bearing fruit...
This is a tender book. The outlaw Elvis, the performer one fan called "a great big beautiful hunk of forbidden fruit," the savvy, surly dreamer who once remarked to a reporter, "You can't be a rebel if you grin," is set forth here as a kind of perpetual lost boy who clung to the sure anchorage of his family and friends. But as the book closes, friends become salaried employees, and the hometown girls are outnumbered by stars flying in from Hollywood. Natalie Wood came to Memphis and lasted four days, stunned by the celebrity madness surrounding Elvis...