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When the last pig-tailed bandicoot disappeared from Australia 80 years ago, there were no mourners. Such a muted reaction is understandable, given that the bandicoot looked like a very large rat. It’s also one of many small mammals that have gone extinct in Australia over the last two centuries...
...Subway Series" follows several months in the life of Tina, a New York high school student. She goes to the Met, reads alty comix and feels sentimental about the decaying buildings of her city. She occasionally sees James, a pig-nosed college-age jerk who pressures her for sex. Meanwhile she has started to develop an increasingly romantic relationship with Evan, a schoolmate she takes guitar lessons from, although he has a girlfreind. With this triangle driving the story Leela Corman creates a portrait of the overly-adult lives of New York's middle-class teenagers...
...experimental drug from pig intestinal tissue could reduce the number of deaths following stem cell transplants, Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute announced in a recent study...
...team created the teeth by taking unerupted pig tooth buds, breaking these tissues down to the cell level and coating a scaffold—or tooth mold—with as many cells as possible. The scaffold was then implanted in the blood-rich intestinal lining of rats...
...family owns. It means fertility and hope for an abundant harvest," says Dara. "The ngadhu symbolizes man, who protects the family." A concatenation of jagged megaliths, some more than three meters high, surrounds the village. "When we pray for a good harvest, we say mass, then we sacrifice a pig or buffalo on the stones," Dara says...