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Article: One Man's Meat; Some Have a Palate for a Plate of Reindeer
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- The Washington Post
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- December 19, 1994
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With Christmas nigh, traditionally we should be snuggled by the
fire reading to children classic holiday tales of reindeer from the
North Pole that glide across the moon-lit winter sky.
But this is 1994, a time when cholesterol counts are mounting
higher than snow drifts and fat content is on more minds than sugar
plums. So some science types who are absolutely certain reindeer
aren't airborne mammals anyway and don't buy the shiny-nose thing
are rethinking our mythic relationship with Dasher and Prancer,
Donner and Blitzen, et al., on a more down-to-earth basis.
Instead of joining in all the reindeer games, they've been
brainstorming how, in the foreseeable future, we might join in ...