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...researchers working with the Humane Society of the U.S. are trying a kinder, gentler approach: birth control. Led by Jay Kirkpatrick, a biologist at Eastern Montana College, they are rounding up wild does at the National Zoo's research center in Front Royal, Virginia, and inoculating them with what amounts to an antipregnancy vaccine. Developed by Kirkpatrick and two other scientists, the technique, known as immunocontraception, involves injecting a protein extracted from the reproductive system of a pig. In making antibodies to attack the foreign pig protein, the deer's immune system also attacks the doe's own, very similar...
...thousands of women -- not to say the environment -- a break. It is not crazy, however, to provide the beavers with contraceptives, so Wildlife 2000 has arranged to trap beavers, sort out the females and fit them with Norplant, the birth-control device. It might work, says Montana veterinarian Jay Kirkpatrick, who has used Norplant successfully on skunks. Inasmuch as beavers are such eager workers, it will be interesting to see if they suffer from angst as they try, try, try to have babies and fail, fail, fail...
...this topsy-turvy political year, the Democrats were as smug as Republicans at their New York convention, and the Republicans seem fated to be as fratricidal as Democrats this month in Houston. There is an eerie symmetry at work. Jeane Kirkpatrick, in her book justifying the neoconservatives' abandonment of the Democratic Party, described the 1972 Democratic Convention as out of touch with ordinary Americans. The New Presidential Elite argued that Democrats under McGovern were more interested in ideological purity than in winning, more concerned with being "correct" than with being inclusive. It was a party of rectitude and litmus tests...
...with tarbrush and gold leaf, and instead of the wicked old stereotypes, we have a whole outfit of equally misleading new ones. Our predecessors made a hero of Christopher Columbus. To Europeans and white Americans in 1892, he was Manifest Destiny in tights, whereas a current PC book like Kirkpatrick Sale's The Conquest of Paradise makes him more like Hitler in a caravel, landing like a virus among the innocent people of the New World...
...book can be said to summon up the passions of this moment, it is Kirkpatrick Sale's The Conquest of Paradise, (Knopf; $24.95). Published last year, the 453-page popular history has become a call to arms for the anti- Columbians; it is also the book the traditional Columbus faction most loves to hate. Sale is a social historian whose research into Columbus' life and travels and the explorer's contemporary world is impressive; his narrative, especially when he joins Columbus aboard the Santa Maria, is gripping. Sale persuasively describes what it must have felt like for the explorer...