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When Pork Yields Discovery

Steven Zhang  —  Feb 16, 2010

With the Great Recession still looming over our economy, bipartisanship brewing within Congress and President Obama recently submitting his $3.8 trillion budget, the political vitriol against useless federal spending has been on the rise. These challenges to pork barrel projects has culminated in a recent report written by Senators Tom Coburn and John McCain highlighting the 100 most useless federally-funded projects.

It’s the End of the World As We Know It, And I Feel Swine…

Samantha Hartzband  —  Sep 9, 2009
This week, Cornell staff and students have been inundated with information, reported cases, and mass hysteria centered around the dreaded swine flu. Forget budget cuts and that there are now two salad lines at Statler - we’ve got the urge to oink. But what did a little swine ever do to you, besides giving you a temperature high enough to miss your sorority’s annual wine tour? Pigs were dealt the short end of the stick, and have paid countless contributions to our daily lives. Need proof? I present… The Top Five Pigs (Swine) in Popular Culture… NUMBER 5: WILBUR (The Literate Pig) It wouldn’t be right to have a pig countdown without this porker on the list.
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