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Do the Right Thing

Friday September 15, 2000

  • TITLE: "Do the Right Thing." A 1989 film by Spike Lee who is not, to my knowledge, a relation to Wen Ho Lee.

  • "… the Virgo super cluster…" This is part of our address which starts out as Earth, the Solar System, the Milky Way galaxy, the Virgo super cluster … There are 20 galaxies (including our own) which make up the Virgo super cluster. Click here to read some fun facts about our galaxy.

  • "recused himself…" From the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary: re·cuse
    Pronunciation: ri-'kyüz
    Function: transitive verb
    Inflected Form(s): re·cused; re·cus·ing
    Etymology: Middle English, to refuse, from Middle French recuser, from Latin recusare
    Date: 1949
    : to disqualify (oneself) as judge in a particular case; broadly : to remove (oneself) from participation to avoid a conflict of interest

  • Here is the Mullings Catchy Caption of the Day


    And then I invented civilization!

  • "Donations connected to tort reform veto."

    Here is the chart from the New York Times:

  • "Jumbo Contraceptive"
    A Jumbo Contraceptive is the Solution

    LONDON (Reuters) - A new jumbo birth control drug is helping veterinarians in South Africa solve a huge problem -- too many elephants, the journal Nature reported Wednesday. Many African countries are worried about too few elephants but the pachyderms in South Africa's Kruger National Park are so prolific that conservationists have had to cull some of them to keep their numbers stable and preserve their habitat.

    Richard Fayrer-Hosken and his colleagues at the University of Georgia in Athens have developed a contraceptive vaccine that is safe and controls free-roaming African elephants, Nature reported.

    The pig-derived (pZP) vaccine causes the elephant's immune system to produce antibodies that prevent fertilization.

    When the researchers vaccinated 20 free-roaming elephants in the Kruger park and tracked them a year later there were fewer pregnancies in the vaccinated elephants than in an equal number of animals given a placebo vaccine.

    ``Our immunocontraceptive study shows that free-roaming African elephants vaccinated with pZP are protected against conception,'' Fayrer-Hosken said in the journal.

    The vaccine had no side effects and was not harmful to a developing fetus in a pregnant elephant that was mistakenly vaccinated, he said.

    The researchers added that the effects of the vaccine are reversible and it does not damage the ovaries or the reproductive cycle.

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