Word: headlessness
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LONDON: So you're a mad scientist. You want your experiments to scare people the world over, but your budget is minuscule. Well, you could do a lot worse than cloning headless tadpoles...
...make them headless? Slack tells the BBC, "Imagine reprogramming an egg in such a way that it didn't form a whole embryo but it just formed the organ you wanted, plus the heart and circulatory system." Yes, this is no mad science, but simply organ transplant research ? just as Dr. Ian Wilmut originally cloned Dolly the sheep to create a better glass of milk...
...starts by projecting stereograms--two-dimensional images that produce three-dimensional illusions--onto a big movie screen. As the students stare, a pattern of chain-saw-wielding teddy bears magically gives rise to the image of a large, headless bear that seems to hover in space. Sometimes, explains Pinker, 43, the mind "sees" things that are not really there...
...that could be heard miles away as it blew them apart, killing four Israelis and wounding almost 200 more. For the second time in six weeks, paramedics and police raced to handle grisly carnage on Jerusalem's streets: a little girl's body lying mangled in an alley, a headless corpse resting nearby, arms and legs scattered everywhere, blood sprayed on the front of a bank, bits of flesh left for ultra-Orthodox volunteers to scoop up for burial...
...Reparations optional.) Congress could withhold aid to Egypt until the Mubarak government sheds a few public tears for holding the ancient Israelites in bondage. And isn't it high time the new socialist government of France admitted it was a mite sorry for the heedlessness that left Louis XVI headless...