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...Specially enhanced to resist rejection by the host body, the nerve cells -- taken from the pig's snout, no less -- not only restored the spine's protective sheath, but actually caused the spinal cord to regenerate itself. Researchers have already started testing the technique on monkeys; early results have been positive. Soon, they expect to move on to humans. But Alexion CEO Dr. Leonard Bell sounded a note of caution: "The best-case scenario is that patients may expect to become somewhat more independent in their everyday living but maybe not entirely independent," he said. Realistic expectations in cell technology...
Your photo of a businessman patting the snout of a bronze bull statue in New York City [SPECIAL REPORT, Sept. 14] brought to mind the days of Moses, when the object of worship was a golden calf. Who said that things change? CARL KAHN Chicago...
...yesterday and, thinking perhaps of lunch, made a beeline for some healthy-looking parks department employees. A worker who knew his way around gators quickly subdued it (ah, New York), assisted by a park ranger with a very big rubber band, which she promptly clamped over the gator's snout. City officials said it must have been a pet, since it was rather pale.Mladic photograph by Sava RadovanovicClinton photograph by Diana Walker for TIMEWu photograph by BBCGingrich photograph by Cynthia Johnson for TIMEMice photograph by John Sholtis Previous TIME Daily Campaign...
...except Congress." In 1906 Henry Adams, whose own father and grandfather had served in the House of Representatives, somewhat disapprovingly quoted a Cabinet member as follows: "You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout...
...they'll talk to this curious listener. Toujours Provence contains an intricate aria of shoptalk from an expert truffle hunter who has even filmed his pig at work, "its snout moving rhythmically back and forth, ears flopping over its eyes, a single-minded earth-moving machine." A similar cameo on the history of pastis ("the milk of Provence") is written with an unpompous sense of discovery and an appropriate amount of thirst...