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After an implant, a rare Indian ox is born to a Holstein

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blessed Event in The Bronx After an implant, a rare Indian ox is born to a Holstein | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...medley relay--1. Princeton 3:27.3 (Sykes 53.5, Ox 59.1, Smith 49.2, O'Hara 45.5); 2. Princeton 3:41.2 (Kone, Watson, McCarron, Schrieshelm...

Author: By Howard N. Mead, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Aquamen Triumph To Even Old Score | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...driving past huge bank buildings and small noodle stands and city-style corrugated steel-vegetable markets and the next minute you look out the window and there is only the emerald green of rice paddies, a farmer leveling a flooded field with a pole pulled horizontally behind an ox...

Author: By Stephen R. Latham, | Title: More Than One Great Wall | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...major superhighway heading east, and at one point an ox blocks one gate of a tollbooth for several minutes. Alex and I note that all the collectors in the booths are women; an old man offers an explanation for our observation. The government, he tells us, decreed only women should collect tolls. Men, it had decided, cheated too much, pocketed too many of the toll receipts. Women are more honest...

Author: By Stephen R. Latham, | Title: More Than One Great Wall | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

Cynthia's eating binges, always followed by self-induced vomiting or heavy use of laxatives, are symptoms of bulimarexia (from the Greek words for ox and hunger), an eating disorder also known as gorge-purge syndrome and bulimia nervosa Some bulimarectics gorge themselves four or five times a week, putting away 40,000 calories, then take 200 to 600 laxative pills. "To many of them, a day without binging is like a day without sunshine," says Health Educator Mary Ellen Shanesey of the University of Illinois. "They have chosen this way to handle stress, as alcoholics use alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Eating Binges | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

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