Word: prospecting
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...hundred miles away in New Haven, the prospect of menstrual blood and zygote parts is raising eyebrows. Aliza Shvarts, a Yale arts student, ignited a media firestorm last week when she refused to acknowledge that her senior art project, in which she sought to regularly conceive and abort a slew of fetuses over the course of nine months, had actually been a hoax.Shvarts, a senior in Yale’s Davenport College, claims to have assembled a number of “fabricators” for her project who, at regular intervals in the last year, provided her with sperm...
...continues to grow at home and abroad. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has reported that from 1970 to 2005 US meat consumption increased 12.3 percent to 200 lbs per person per year. The U.N. similarly predicts that global meat consumption will double by 2050. To any observer, the prospect of ridding the population of carnivores appears rather bleak. Therefore, PETA has decided to follow a time-honored path: if you can’t beat them, co-opt them. In vitro technology would perhaps make everyone winners: the masses could enjoy a nice steak and the animal activists wouldn?...
...competing campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton shift their focus from Pennsylvania to the next key state, Indiana Democrats are starting to relish the prospect of playing a rare key role in the primary process. Jenny Weiser, the executive director of the state's Democratic party, says she moved the May 4 Jefferson-Jackson dinner from an 800-seat ballroom at the downtown Indianapolis Marriott to the city's convention center, where she expects more than 2,500 people will attend. In the last week, more than 1,000 new donations have come through the committee's website, many...
...Harry, has been the country's cherished son since the premature death of his mother, Princess Diana. The struggle for the military has been to harness the image of the well-favored child - the codename of William's flight training was "Golden Kestrel" - while also protecting him from the prospect of sudden death in a combat zone. When news broke that Prince Harry had been serving in the dangerous Helmand province, many British papers lionized his bravery and commended the military for treating him as "one of the lads." But others criticized the Ministry of Defense for allowing Harry...
...William's cushy flight training has drawn criticism, but so would his being deployed to a combat zone - an unlikely prospect after Harry's experience. Further proof, perhaps, that while it has its undeniable perks, being a British royal is no job for the faint-hearted...