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...from endangered animals that you failed to cover in your story ((Environment, Nov. 14)) is that many of these products have genuine medicinal purposes. Because of this, half the task of saving these animals lies in understanding how these products are effective. China, for example, has recently successfully synthesized deer musk, an ingredient in fully 11% of that country's herbal pharmacology. This timely discovery, which will eliminate the need for the animal's musk gland, has probably gone as far to save endangered musk deer as an army of environmentalists. It is not difficult to see how international cooperation...
...Beans are no-accounts too numerous to count. They are the one-family inner city of dismal little Egypt, Maine. They do odd jobs. They hunt deer out of season and do stupid, self-destructive things in all seasons. They seem to have never heard of contraception. They have heard of welfare, but they are too ornery to accept...
...Schmitt, getting up there to debate the future of student government at Harvard took a lot of chutzpah (or ignorance). Deep down, I was almost rooting for the guy. Too bad he froze, like a deer in the headlights, when my fellow panelist Josh Feltman '95 asked him some specific questions about life at Harvard...
...runs over ancient, barely visible Anasazi trails in the Grand Canyon. Her descents are a kind of Zen archery, only partly physical. Lopez, who's far too shrewd to bring the fey sister onstage, leaves the reader with a mysterious image: the woman, running on her toes like a deer, glimpsed by rafting vacationers, and then, downriver beyond impassible rock walls, glimpsed again...
Disease seem always to spring from disruption in the accustomed order. Lyme disease, for example, was caused by the overpopulation of deer which followed a change in the habitat...