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...three nonprofit groups and the Democratic National Committee. Although he could engage in political activities, Ickes was barred, like all other federal employees, from soliciting contributions. The fax reads more like an order than a solicitation, but even Ickes told the New York Times the memo was "just blind-pig stupid...
...know what you are getting. With adult-cell cloning, you can wait to see how well an individual turns out before deciding whether to clone it. Cloning also has the potential to make genetic engineering more efficient. Once you produce an animal with a desired trait--a pig with a human immune system, perhaps--you could make as many copies as you want...
...Leno skit in which the talk-show host goes out onto the street to test people's familiarity with Biblical trivia. A standard question in his repertoire: which of the following is not a Biblical book--Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus or DeGeneres? Needless to mention, Leno's hapless guinea pig does not "choose wisely." I sometimes wonder whether Leno would not find equal ignorance were he to ask: who of the following is not a Supreme Court justice--Rehnquist, Ginsburg, Scalia or Sorvino...
...want to take the time to have their students present their interests and qualifications on paper, so that they can make informed decisions about people rather than things. They would rather construct objective mechanisms of exclusion whereby they can say anybody born a Rabbit, Dragon, or Pig is out. --Jed Silverstein...
...right. Early in the novel the two Cherokee heroes, the legendary gunfighter Ned Christie and his pal Zeke Proctor, are drinking in Zeke's smokehouse as Ned nerves himself to propose marriage to Zeke's daughter Jewel. Ned stands up too quickly and bumps into a freshly butchered pig. "The sight of Ned smacking himself with a slab of shoat struck Zeke as hilarious...Zeke's funny bone was easily tickled, and when he had downed a quart or two of whiskey, he found plenty to laugh about...