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From the outside, the new strain of mice looked a little, well, lumpy. But when scientists peeled back their fur and skin, what had seemed like extra baggage in the shoulders and hips turned out to be pure muscle--two to three times the muscle mass of the average pip-squeak rodent. These were not your ordinary genetically engineered laboratory mice; these were Mighty Mice...
Huber, who was awarded the 1988 Nobel prize in Chemistry, is the director of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Biochemie in Martinsried, Germany...
...same liberal intellectuals who had once defended the notion of a socialist society now denounce it as merely another imperialist ideology propagated by dead white guys. It seems like Sovietism has been permanently relegated to being a invaluable subject of academic research and a provider of military medals, fur hats and other stylishly hip cold war memorabilia. Gone are the missiles, air-raid drills, and fallout shelters. And Tom Clancy's early books can be safely relocated to the "historical novel" shelves of libraries nationwide. So why are we still so scared...
Students at Harvard will go to great lengths for fur...
Sights like that are jarring to the senses because our experience tells us that certain things, both in and out of nature, do not go together. Meret Oppenheim's fur-covered cup, saucer and spoon is always upsetting, no matter how often one looks at it, because we tend to keep certain textures and functions separate in our minds. Snow on a beach is not upsetting in the same way, but it startles the imagination. Where a child built a castle in the sand, he might make a snowman in winter. Or he could build a fort, two forts...