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...cross-species delivery was the third of its kind. Three years ago at New York City's Bronx Zoo, Flossie, a Holstein dairy cow, gave birth to a gaur (rhymes with tower), a rare type of wild ox that inhabits the forests of South Asia. In 1977 two wild Sardinian sheep were born to a domestic sheep at Utah State University...
...millions of American taxpayers, the only big tax shelters are the ones they live in: they can deduct the interest they pay on their mortgages from their income. But to those who can afford the high price of getting in, tax shelters can be anything from Holstein cattle to windmills and even roadside billboards...
World War II began last week at 5:20 a. m. (Polish time) Friday, September 1, when a German bombing plane dropped a projectile on Puck, fishing village and air base in the armpit of the Hel Peninsula. At 5:45 a. m. the German training ship Schleswig-Holstein lying off Danzig fired what was believed to be the first shell: a direct hit on the Polish underground ammunition dump at Westerplatte. It was a grey day, with gentle rain...
...backseat of a Mercedes is piled with bags of chicken feed. A jogger is startled when Canada geese suddenly lift off from a soybean field. A sculptor thumbs through Hoard's Dairyman near the life-size statue of a Holstein, while down at Rose & Chubby's Luncheonette, commuters discuss optional features available on new eight-row corn pickers...
...press box was full. Windsor charged discrimination against small newspapers and covered the games from outside the stadium, until he got an invitation from Chancellor Christopher Fordham to cover the Thanksgiving game from the president's box. In the middle of his account (look up, reader, for a Holstein is about to drop), Windsor wrote: "I was probably the only person at the game that day who had been kissed by a cow. Early that morning I walked to the barn . . . and as I put a bucket of sweet feed over the fence, Chocolate, my big, black and beautiful...