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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...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, CAVORTING BEASTIES | Title: Why a Rat Had To Die | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost in New York | 10/4/2002 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Wendy D. Widman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Drug May Reduce Transplant Deaths | 10/3/2002 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Katharine A. Kaplan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Laboratory Teeth Offer Promise | 9/27/2002 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detour | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

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