Cuban cows

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

from SLATE's summary of today's news from major US papers: >An article in
the [Wall Street JOURNAL] says that Fidel Castro is pushing his scientists
to clone milking-cows, with the goal being to replicate a famously
productive, and now deceased, Cuban bovine beast. Castro turned to that plan
after his previous scheme to provide endless milk proved a touch
unrealistic. The idea, according to the paper, was "to provide families with
miniature milk-cows that they could keep in their apartments. The pint-sized
beasts would graze on grass grown in drawers under fluorescent lights."<

I'm sorry, but it sounds as if Fidel -- or one of his advisors -- has
partaken of some grass grown in drawers under fluorescent lights. The intent
is good, but Lysenko's ghost is hovering near-by.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine