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Harrison's humor in Warlock puts the wrong man in the trench coat. Lundgren is a poet, not a flatfoot, a satyr trying his hoof at logic and deduction. Like most literary fools since Don Quixote saddled up Rosinante, Lundgren is redeemed by his own goodness. Harrison's taste for the bat ty sometimes cloys: "He really wasn't so much a fool as he was giddy about still being alive." Lengthy erotic descriptions tend to become postcoital arias. But Har rison scores well on the firing range: his humor usually strikes in the killing zone. Dashiell...
...crowded out of favorite hideaways by an expanding human population, no more than about 2,000 of the animals still roam freely in the wild. The dark, white-stockinged creatures are the world's largest wild cattle. Fully grown, a male gaur may measure 6 ft. from hoof to shoulder and weigh nearly 2,000 Ibs. Perhaps wisely, no one has really ever bothered to domesticate the beasts...
...potential source of medical and industrial advancements. By "splicing" and rearranging genes, researchers believe they may someday produce such crucial substances as insulin and interferon, as well as the means to accelerate food and energy production. One laboratory has already announced that it has found a vaccine for hoof-and-mouth disease, the deadly ailment that afflicts cattle...
AIso in the future but perhaps more feasible are gene-splicing applications in the fields of animal husbandry and agriculture. Under a contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Genentech is already working on a vaccine against hoof-and-mouth disease, which kills off millions of food-producing animals a year round the world. Geneticists also hope to endow such basic food plants as wheat, corn and rice with the ability to "fix'' or draw their own nitrogen from the air. At present, nitrogen must be provided in expensive fertilizers made from increasingly costly petroleum products. But scientists using plasmids...
...tough skin just below her knee, using a foot-long saw instead of a scalpel. Then, with an electric drill, he cut a hole through one of the fractured bones and shoved in a 12-in.-long steel pin; this served as an anchor for the heavy hoof-to-knee cast. Three and a half hours later Mandavu was brought back to consciousness. Within GARRISON minutes she lumbered to her feet, apparently no worse for the experience...