Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When those portentous white envelopes slide underneath the doors of anxious first-years tomorrow morning, the randomization experiment will be nearly complete. The Class of 1999 was the guinea pig of the historic change in housing policy that has served to eliminate the peculiar characters of the residential houses; after the Class of 2001 rises to sophomore status this September, the only vestiges of jock culture in Mather House will be its glorious weight room, and Adams House will be left with nothing more artistic than psychedelic hallways and a pool theater...
...This is not a pig-in-a-python effect," he said, "The demographics are changing for the long term...
Recently a doctor grafted a portion of a pig's eye on the eyeball of a blind boy, Alfred Lemonowicz of Paterson, N.J. According to reports the operation was partly successful--the young boy is able to see slightly. At any rate, the attendant publicity has secured the young man a contract to appear in vaudeville with the pig...
...Golden Girls": After a cheese-cake pig-out session, Dorothy and Blanche notice Rose dashing off to the bathroom. In an emotional, two-episode, "to be continued" tour-de-force, Rose is discovered to have had an eating disorder for the past 70 years...
...genetic landscape of Private Vaughn's cells. This time they got lucky. They found small pieces of flulike RNA. Their subsequent analysis showed that the virus was an H1N1 influenza unlike any flu virus identified during the past 80 years. The closest known strain was Swine Iowa 30--the pig flu isolated by Richard Shope in 1930 and kept alive at various culture repositories ever since. Their findings suggest that the 1918 virus came to people from pigs, not from birds--although Taubenberger cites studies by Webster and others indicating that human viruses and the pig flu of the 1930s...