Re: Cuban cows

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:44 AM
>Subject: [PEN-L:26131] Cuban cows


> 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

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Or the WSJ staff has been reading the National Enquirer while snorting their breakfast.

Ian