Word: transplanter
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...vendor was doing good business hawking T shirts with the inscription I LOST MY HEAD AT THE YALE PEABODY MUSEUM; and large crowds gathered outside as if waiting to see a popular sports event. What they were about to witness, though, was a drastic head transplant involving some 150 million-year-old bones. More than a century after the fossilized skeleton of a 65-ft.-long Brontosaurus was discovered, the Yale museum was replacing the skull of its prize exhibit, long a model for dinosaur displays the world over. Bronto, it appears, had been topped all these years with...
Harvard, this year's Homecoming opponent. has played the Indians five times in this century and never in Williamsburg. One sorority's parade float was entitled "Southern Comfort Drowns the Crimson Tide" until fine-tuned by a Northern transplant...
...proudly emblazoned with the word NATIVE. Longtime residents, naturally, felt left out. Equally resentful of the newcomers, they hit the highways with a sticker of their own: SEMI-NATIVE. The immigrants decided to fight back, and before very long, Coloradans were sighting ALIEN vehicles and others labeled FOREIGNER or TRANSPLANT. RESTLESS NATIVES were seen roaming the interstates. Some, lacking a native sense of humor, asked WHO CARES? Came the inevitable answer, I CARE...
...winning the battle of the bumpers? Entrepreneur Eric Glade, 26, for one. The Utah transplant has a flourishing sideline marketing the stickers and matching T shirts. The profits are private, but Glade says that retailers J.C. Penney's and Joslins have placed orders totaling $50,000. Now he is planning bumper crops in other "snob state" markets: California, Texas, Oregon, "anywhere there is a native population worried about the influx of outsiders...
...more and more dependent on air transport. The Greater New York Blood Program, the largest such nonprofit blood bank in the world, now receives nearly one-third of its daily blood needs on overnight flights from suppliers in Europe. The Cleveland-based Organ Recovery Inc., a regional clearinghouse for transplant operations, relies essentially on air carriers to get kidneys, livers and other organs quickly to those in need...