Word: mule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HAVIARAS'S powers broaden when he shifts from describing the countryside to describing humanity. As Panagis and the others move away from the insect swarm, they find a man lying unconscious and nearly dead by the water. When they look inside the baskets of the man's mule, they see "the severed heads of four or five young men and women. The mule's owner was a headhunter, receiving pay for the heads of leftist sympathizers: Haviaras lingers on such scenes, making us feel, in the thoroughness of his description, the impact they have on Greek children...
...committed to "news that no one else is reporting." His favorite story, he says unhesitatingly, was the 50th wedding anniversary reunion of a rural Mississippi family. "They had seven children, and when the first one was old enough to go to college, they hitched up the wagon to a mule and rode to town to borrow $5 for bus fare, because that was all they could give. Every one of them went on to some kind of profession. As we stood in that room and watched them, we were crying and they were crying, and we all realized that something...
...Cambridge experimenters produced a total of six animals with characteristics of both sheep and goats. Only one of them, however, had blood proteins from both species. That animal behaves like a goat and has even tried mating with female goats, but like another hybrid, the mule, its sperm are defective. At Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, West Germany, other embryo manipulators also reported producing goat-sheep...
Though such experimenting is sure to trigger debate, scientists point to practical benefits: it should make it easier to rear embryos of endangered species in the wombs of other species or even create hybrids as valuable as the indomitable mule...
...emergency feeding. One morning last week near Kremmling, Colo., Gerrans and his crew took their Sno-Cat, a huge cart with tanklike treads, rumbling out for the daily 14-mile feeding sortie. The men scattered high-protein biscuits by the handful across the snow. Soon a pair of mule deer appeared, then five...