Word: biron
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...hormone cocktail designed to stimulate ovarian maturation. Although the follicles that eventually produce eggs would normally remain inactive until puberty, in this case they began to secrete the female hormone oestradiol after four weeks in the test-tube?a sign that they were maturing. Team leader Dr. Tal Biron-Shental from Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba, Israel, says her aim is to provide infertile women with a steady supply of donor eggs for in-vitro fertilization, but admits the technology is only in its earliest stages. It has, however, already produced baby mice...
...Sagan won the case on appeal. The outline is familiar maybe even a bit hoary: Gueret, a downtrodden bookkeeper, despised by his bosses and his landlady, stumbles upon a cache of jewels. They were lost in the course of a murder, which Gueret did not commit but Mme. Biron, the landlady, thinks he did. She is a retired Marseille moll, and in her eyes Gueret's bravado raises him from an irritating reminder of her reduced circumstances to a means of escaping from them...
...cigarettes Bogart-style and shaking his head in the worldly way of Edward G. Robinson. She rents a preposterous weekend apartment in Lille, where she and Gueret calculate their future in the Congo or Senegal, "two unlikely, hardworking lovers...planning for their years of triumph and luxury." But Mme. Biron has also got in touch with an old gangster crony in Marseille to help her fence the jewels, and after that, reality takes a brutal measure of the couple's dreams...
...minds, so that her customary grace notes-sly humor, sheer oddity-are rarely struck. But the story is told in sure-handed fashion, and it is flawlessly paced. Gueret at least is a convincing character, and the author takes an unexpectedly hearty interest in his clumsy pursuit of Mme. Biron. The French critics are doubtless right that this is second-class Sagan, but there is enough here to justify her exploring the low road for once. -By Martha Duffy
...pentameter, by cursing "the blinkered outlook of academics." His most persuasive replies, however, are a series of militant books about the Elizabethans, and The Annotated Shakespeare. There he dissects Love's Labour's Lost to find fresh evidence that Shakespeare penned his own droll self-portrait as Biron and modeled Biron's dark lady, Rosaline, on Emilia Lanier. Further clues are on the way. This month, when Rowse visits the U.S., he will bring with him a sheaf of newly discovered poems by Emilia. The 74-year-old Cornishman is rooted to his native soil, but this...