|
Mephistopheles: the devil in the modern world.
National Review
|
July 17, 1987|
|
COPYRIGHT 1987 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.
(Hide copyright information)
Copyright
|
Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World
by Jeffrey Burton Russell (Cornell,330 pp., $24.95)
"THE DEVIL IS the best-known symbolof radical evil,' writes the historian Jeffrey Russell, and "The existence of radical evil is clear to anyone not blinded by current relativism.' From these clear and true words, this book moves with sustained seriousness and brilliance across five centuries, from Luther's time to our own. This is the fourth and final volume of Russell's series on the history of conceptions of the devil, and, although it has all the virtues of ...
|
Sea snakes.(facts about sea snakes)
Magazine article from: Ranger Rick
; ...POWER The back end of a sea snake is as flat as a canoe...like one too. When the snake swims, it body back...KINDLY KILLERS Sea snakes have the most powerful poison of all snakes. Just one drop would...three people, and a snake can deliver up to eight...
|
|
Venomous sea snakes play heads or tails with their predators.
Newspaper article from: NewsRx Health & Science
; ...strategy needed when the snake is probing for prey...being extremely venomous sea snakes are susceptible to attack...venomous predators such as sea snakes. Traditionally the only...behaviour strategy in sea snakes has been documented in individual cases, when a snake ...
|
|
Zoologists: Sea Snakes Seek Out Freshwater to Slake Thirst.
News Wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service
; ...to dense populations of sea snakes -- the freshwater lens...Rather than helping sea snakes gain water, the snakes' salt gland may help the snakes with ion balance -- moving...Lillywhite said. Some sea snake species living in dry regions...
|
|
Sea snakes and trawling. (journal extracts).
Magazine article from: Ecos
; ...the vulnerability of sea snakes to capture and...prawn trawl grounds. Snakes living outside trawl...included the time of day sea snakes fed, their diet, and...For example, large sea snake species are usually longer...some may even increase sea snake escape by up ...
|
|
Helping sea snakes beat the odds; Reducing the impact of prawn trawling on sea snakes is the aim of a study involving CSIRO, the Australian Fisheries Management Authority and the Northern Prawn Fishery.
M2 Presswire
; ...survive. Many of the sea snake species caught...effects of trawling on sea snake populations so...little impact on the sea snakes being caught. "There...David Milton The sea snake project will: * quantify...effects of trawling on sea snakes was highlighted ...
|
|
Zoologists: Sea snakes seek out freshwater to slake thirst.
Newspaper article from: Global Warming Focus
; ...Lillywhite believes the sea snakes that spend their lives...dense populations of sea snakes u the freshwater...salt gland may help the snakes with ion balance u moving...Lillywhite said. Some sea snake species living in dry...abundant population of sea snakes in ...
|
|
ZOOLOGISTS: SEA SNAKES SEEK OUT FRESHWATER TO SLAKE THIRST
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...Lillywhite believes the sea snakes that spend their lives...dense populations of sea snakes - the freshwater...salt gland may help the snakes with ion balance - moving...Lillywhite said. Some sea snake species living in dry...abundant population of sea snakes in ...
|
|
SEA SNAKES SEEK FRESH WATER TO SLAKE THIRST
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...07 -- (IANS) Captured sea kraits refuse to drink...professor of zoology and sea snake expert at North Carolina...geographic distribution of sea snakes," Heatwole said.Lillywhite...research may help explain why sea snakes tend to be most common...
|
|
|
SEA SNAKES LIKE TO SIP FRESHWATER RATHER THAN SALTWATER WHEN THIRSTY
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...ANI): Experiments have shown that sea snakes seek out freshwater when they are...Carolina State University and expert on sea snakes, has termed Lillywhite's conclusion...understanding the geographic distribution of sea snakes," he said.According to Lillywhite...
|
|
|
Chennai fishermen net 13 sea snakes
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...The rest were freed into the sea water. Office in-charge...Very rarely we get sea snakes in this area. We caught a...the sea. We have kept these snakes in our aquarium for public viewing." Sea snakes are several times poisonous...venom in the country for a sea ...
|
Find more facts and information related to the
article "Mephistopheles: the devil in the modern world."
