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Scholars have understood for hundreds of years that the two great Homeric epics originated as oral poems in preliterate Greece. (No one really knows how the written texts came into being.) But only in the past 40 or so years have linguists and anthropologists come up with a plausible theory of how those poems must have been made. Homer--or the collection of bards given that name at some point in the murky past--did not wander around Greece with 12,109 lines of the Odyssey committed to memory. Instead, the Homeric repetitions so familiar to readers of English translations...
...will spend his fellowship this year at Harvard completing research focusing on the "Oral Literature in Africa...
This summer an FDA advisory panel recommended that RU 486, a French oral contraceptive, be approved for use in the U.S. More than 200,000 European women have used RU 486, which induces an abortion in 95% of cases. To be effective, the drug--actually two different pills--must be taken within the first seven weeks of pregnancy. A small number of women using RU 486 reported uterine bleeding and severe cramping that required pain medication...
Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon L. Glashow, recalls a time when as a graduate student, he was taking an oral exam from Bainbridge, and was woefully under-prepared...
Despite the FDA's tacit green light, drugmakers are not likely to apply for formal approval. Wyeth-Ayerst, the largest U.S. producer of oral contraceptives, has no plans to market such pills or even include emergency contraceptive instructions on its current products. The real problem, rather than any political fallout, says Wyeth spokeswoman Audrey Ashby, is the risk of getting bogged down in costly product-liability suits...