Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, amongst the many who get into messes deserve to be fussed over as invalids and who should be required . . . to carry for themselves the responsibilities of normal healthy men and women...
...Canada, and cattle experts are building up herds of dwarfs for study. Last week Professor E. W. Stringam of the University, of Manitoba was tenderly nursing a bull calf which he and assistants had delivered by Caesarean section from a dwarf cow. The calf, sired by a normal young bull, is normal in proportions. It will outweigh its mother in three months, but it probably carries the taint of hereditary dwarfism...
Geneticists believe that dwarfism is a classic example of Mendelian inheritance, and that it is caused by a single recessive gene. A bull may appear normal, but if it carries the gene of dwarfism and is mated to a carrier cow, one-quarter of their progeny will on the average be dwarfs, one-half will be carriers, and one-quarter will be dwarf-free. If the carrier bull is mated to a dwarf-free cow, no dwarfs will appear in the first generation, but half of the calves will be carriers...
Dwarfs into Sausage. Dwarfs mated to dwarfs produce all dwarfs, but although dwarfs are potentially fertile, they rarely reach breeding age. Many are born dead or die soon after birth. Those that live to maturity grow about half the size of normal beef cattle. They wheeze and stagger; their bellies swell, and they often die of bloat. Dwarf beef is of poor quality. Most dwarfs that go to market are ground into sausage...
This week, all over Spain, most university students were busily cheating on their final exams. Reported a Madrid university professor serenely: The chuleta situation is "normal." Agreeing, Barcelona's José Suárez explained: "Passing an exam on the honor system would make the whole matter serious. How could one cheat after being honor-bound not to? It's better to be supervised. Then it's our wits against theirs...