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...seemed that taxol, a drug which would soon be used successfully to shrink ovarian and breast cancer tumors, was only found in the bark of the rare tree...
...giving capacity of what an article in Audobon called the "tree of life" is somewhat limited. According to the American Cancer Society, treatment of one patient requires about three mature trees worth of bark. And such treatment often leads to side effects similar to those suffered by chemotherapy patients, including nausea, vomiting, depression of blood count and cardiac problems...
Anthony Hopkins is Stevens the butler, the old bulldog of Darlington Hall. In the thrust of his Churchillian jaw one can read a declaration of honorable purpose; in his blue eyes one can hear the quiet bark, feel the dogged bite. Stevens lives to serve his master and to rule the servants. Upstairs his step is tentative and his eyes aim for the carpet. Downstairs, as Chairman of the Board, he has a sturdy stride and an imperious gaze. He knows his place all too well. He believes it his job to hear nothing while above, to surrender...
Parents and children should know the warning signals in both pets and wild animals. Loss of coordination, increased aggressiveness or even a strange meow or bark in an unvaccinated pet may be a sign that it should be confined and watched for 10 days. When confronted with a wild animal behaving unnaturally, people should resist the impulse to help and should notify the police. In fact, all wildlife should be observed from a distance. Says Dr. Mark Chassin, New York State health commissioner: "If a nocturnal animal like a raccoon is on a main street at noon in New York...
...American lawyer and explorer named John Lloyd Stephens stumbled across something strange in the Honduran jungle. In Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan (1841), Stephens impressionistically described what was later identified as the ruined Maya city of Copan: "It lay before us like a shattered bark in the midst of the ocean, her masts gone, her name effaced, her crew perished, and none to tell whence she came, to whom she belonged, how long on her voyage, or what caused her destruction...