Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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United Family. Tapeworms have no personality, and folk tales about long-established worms that grow to be intimate friends of their human hosts are not based on fact. But tapeworms do have a talent of sorts: their strange and ingenious way of perpetuating their species. Some tapeworms are almost microscopic; others may be more than 100 ft. long. They are all following the same basic way of life. The adult consists of a "head" (scolex) that clings with hooks and suckers to the host's intestine. Below the head is a short neck that grows continually and differentiates into...
More dangerous to man than the beef tapeworm is Echinococcus gramdosus. Sometimes the microscopic eggs adhere to the fur of dogs and find their way into the mouths of dog patters. Once established in human tissue, a single egg can multiply asexually into millions of tapeworm heads enclosed in a cyst as big as a grapefruit...
...with an American stud produced one foal, but it was never shown.) So Pippin lived out her years on the wooded acres of Seaton Hackney Farm-alert, lovely, always a pleasure to watch working in harness. Last week, at 36 (the equivalent of more than 100 years in a human), she developed a serious case of colic. Reluctantly, the Moores made the final decision to put her down...
...exhibits in Low's human menagerie -scowling, smirking, always true to life, yet slightly absurd-have stayed in the minds of millions. Apart from talent, all great cartoonists need a point of attack from which to enfilade their natural and necessary enemy-the great. Low's point of attack was his own New Zealand background. His Scottish-born father was one of those lovable Victorian cranks-a promoter of religions and patent medicines, and a man who fostered domestic harmony by encouraging intellectual debate. In the raucous, blasphemous, antitraditional political life of New Zealand and Australia, Low found...
Winter Romance. In London, Mrs. Grace Clawson won a divorce after testifying that she found a letter from another woman addressing her husband as "My Own Human Hot Water Bottle...