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Exploring mammary mystique
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Sometimes, surely, a breast is just a breast, but never in "A
History of the Breast," Marilyn Yalom's engaging 300-plus page
exploration of the mammary mystique.
Yalom is a senior scholar at the Institute for Women and Gender
at Stanford University. Her book is the result of wide-ranging
academic research, but it also reflects the author's dry sense of
humor, which is immediately apparent in the dustjacket illustration
of a startlingly busty madonna offering one huge naked breast to an
indifferent child. The 15th-century painting is a portrait of Agnes
Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII of ...
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TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ANNOUNCES EXEMPTION TO USE ONAGER ON FIELD CORN
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...exemption allowing the use of hexythiazox (Onager Miticide) on field corn in Texas to control...spider mite (Tetranychus urticae Koch). Onager Miticide, manufactured by the Gowan Co...supervision of licensed applicators. Onager Miticide may be applied in the following...
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TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SECURES EXEMPTION TO USE ONAGER MITICIDE ON CORN TO CONTROL MITES
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...exemption allowing the use of hexythiazox (Onager Miticide) on field corn in Texas to control...spider mite (Tetranychus urticae Koch). Onager Miticide, manufactured by the Gowan Company...supervision of licensed applicators. Onager Miticide may be applied in the following...
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The Art of the Catapult: Build Greek Ballistae, Roman Onagers, English Trebuchets and More Ancient Artillery.(Books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Science News
; THE ART OF THE CATAPULT: Build Greek Ballistae, Roman Onagers, English Trebuchets and More Ancient Artillery WILLIAM GURSTELLE For ancient armies, the catapult was a formidable weapon in...
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Repopulating the desert
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...live ammunition. The onager, the ostrich and the...several dozen ostriches and onagers, on the savanna-like...the Asian wild ass (onager) in 1968 - not enough...works at Hai-Bar. ONAGERS were reintroduced to...segregated groups. One female onager - introduced to the wild...
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New hosts for equine herpesvirus 9.(DISPATCHES)(Clinical report)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases
; ...The virus was also found in an aborted Persian onager. Thus, the natural host range is extended to 6...retrospective analysis of tissues from an aborted Persian onager (E. hemionus onager) fetus from a zoological park in Washington, DC...
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A NOAH'S ARK IN THE DESERT
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...the Asian wild ass, or onager, into the Negev, where...In the Bible, the onager, pereh in Hebrew, symbolized...untamable beast. Unlike the onagers' various relatives...is partly because the onager is nearly without equal...against predators. The onagers were first brought to...
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Gifu University publishes research in herpesvirus.
Newspaper article from: Virus Weekly
; ...were isolated from an aborted fetus of an onager (Equus hemionus) in 1984, an aborted...1996, all in the USA. The mother of the onager fetus and the gazelle were kept near plains...ORF15 (UL45), and ORF68 (US2), the onager, Grevy's zebra and gazelle isolates...
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Human Error Found in More Zoo Deaths; Six Rare Animals Lost In Last Three Years
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...six other animals. They were a Persian onager, a relative of the horse, that died...internal zoo report. The deaths of the onager, orangutan and deer are among 69 deaths...under the Freedom of Information Act. The onager, named Andy, was in "good body condition...
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Dances with Wolves
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...animal section, populated by ostriches, onagers and oryx, is an all-male club minus...joined by five ostriches and three male onagers (pere in Hebrew), called wild asses...year. And, Perl reports, some of the onagers have tried to mount each other. Now the...
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Uch Tepe II: Technical Reports.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...appendix by J. Boessneck. He suggests that the high percentage of onager bones inside the Round Building supports an interpretation of the building as a fort, with onagers a relatively cheap source of meat to support the garrison within. The...
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