FDA approves drug made from milk of genetically engineered goats.

This doesn’t sound so good:
On the front page of its Business section, the New York Times (2/7, B1, Pollack) reported, “Opening the barn door to a new era in farming and pharmaceuticals, the Food and Drug Administration [FDA] on Friday approved the first drug produced by livestock that have been given a human gene.”
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Vegan Girl Scout Cookies

So I’ve been getting solicited by everyone for Girl Scout Cookie orders again. I first thought I was going to be out of luck trying to find vegan options, they are cookies after all.
I found a few pages that made it sound like there were no viable options, but going through their web site I [...]

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Thanksgiving off to a very bad start

Well. The Thanksgiving weekend could not have gotten off to a worse start. Of all the bad things to happen, we hit a deer driving up the expressway. No one was hurt (at least in our car) and the deer had less then a second of suffering (I believe), but it was pretty awful, and [...]

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