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Fevers: friend or foe?
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March 1, 1987|
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FEVERS: FRIEND OR FOE?
"You give me fever when youkiss me, fever when you hold me tight.' When Peggy Lee sang those words in the 1950s, she was referring to the "heat' of passion, to "burning' desire. But what is the real physiological reaction called "fever'? Where does it come from and what is it good for?
Ancient History
The ancients noticed that althoughman and some animals remained warm, reptiles, amphibians, and fish seemed to attain only the temperature of their environment. Early philosophers concentrated on explaining why man was ...
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'Narcissus and Echo'
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; ...worried about her child, whom she named Narcissus, but as time passed, and as she watched...s and a smile as bright as the sun. Narcissus loved to romp through the woods, wander...join in others' games. Something in Narcissus' heart was indifferent to his playmates...
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NARCISSUS CAN DETER FOUR-LEGGED INVADERS.(At Home)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; ...rodents generally avoid death bulbs of narcissus like the plague. Rooted in its name...rodents everywhere. So why write about narcissus as we head into September? Because this...catalogs. This connection of death to narcissus is still carried on today in graveyards...
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'I am not he': Narcissus and ironic performativity in medieval French literature.
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...extensively the medieval French use of Narcissus and mirrors to figure love experience. However, the claim to be like Narcissus is often closely associated with...loving subject really to become like Narcissus requires both the establishment and...
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Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun: Narcissus and Pygmalion.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review
; ...de Lorris recounts Ovid's story of Narcissus; near the end, Jean de Meun tells Ovid...French Pygmalion makes between himself and Narcissus. Both myths have been significantly...Guillaume's adapted version of the Narcissus myth. Jean de Meun modified Ovid's...
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Reflections in a Golden Boy's Eye.(Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer AEsthetic)(Review)
Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
; Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer AEsthetic By Steven Bruhm...as immoral and immature. Reflecting Narcissus shows that these judgments have a depressingly...Bruhm is not the first to revisit the Narcissus myth or to revel in its complex history...
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Toxic narcissus bulbs strike fear in gophers
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...rodents generally avoid death bulbs of narcissus. Rooted in its name is the legendary...gophers everywhere. So why write about narcissus in the midst of summer? Because this...bulb catalogs. Old timers used to use narcissus bulbs to discourage gophers just about...
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Species Narcissus: try these graceful beauties to get a head start on spring. (Plant Portrait).
Magazine article from: Country Living Gardener
; ...leaves. Those diminutive Narcissus bearing solitary inflated...Everyone knows paperwhites (Narcissus tazetta var. papyraceus...gardens with hardy tazetta narcissi such as 'Geranium' and...daffodils). The Lent lily (Narcissus pseudonarcissus, Zones 3...
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The Mirror of Narcissus: history, metaphysics, and the limits of Richard Rorty's pragmatism.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: CLIO
; ...could just be split from my own body, Narcissus cries out in anguish, desperately hoping...as to not disturb his watery double, Narcissus tries to make his image into something...shatters the illusion of permanence, and Narcissus dies a lonely death. He is thus, according...
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The Throoats of Narcissus. (Brief Reviews).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Chicago Review
; Bruce Bond. The Throats of Narcissus. Fayetteville, AK: University...16. ISBN 1-55728-706-6. Narcissus, gazing at his watery reflection...redemptive side: nymphs, wanting to give Narcissus a proper burial, find only a bed...
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Narcissus is a beauty, and that's not a myth
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...Greek myth surrounding the origin of the narcissus, and it's a little sad, but then...there was this handsome young man named Narcissus who went around breaking hearts. Rejected...lovely flower that was given his name: Narcissus. Today the descendants of that flower...
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