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Both young women marry, but of course Ruth wants Elizabeth's husband. The first one eludes her by dying; "I had been robbed of my prey," she frets. She nails his successor, however, and the acquisition of that man, a chilly, - dodgy character himself, takes up most of the action of the story...
...that irritating little noise? Its usefulness from the human point of view is obvious. But what is its survival value from the mosquito point of view? Why in the world would these otherwise canny creatures go to the trouble of evolving a behavior so ideally suited to helping their prey find and swat them...
...more suitable scientific name can be found, the 7-m (20-ft.), one-ton beast is the largest specimen ever seen of a variety of dinosaur known as the Velociraptor, an upright, fast-moving carnivore that sported an enormous claw on the back of each foot for slashing at prey. It was, according to one researcher, "the wolverine of the Cretaceous...
Advances are being made against virtually every affliction to which the human mind is prey. Generalized anxiety can be treated with surprising success with benzodiazepines like Valium, as well as with a new drug called BuSpar (buspirone). Manic depression was effectively treated with lithium long before anyone knew why it worked; now therapy is being fine-tuned with medications like the anticonvulsant Tegretol (carbamazepine) and drugs that ameliorate lithium's side effects. Debilitating panic attacks can be prevented with both antidepressants and benzodiazepines. Hyperactivity, addictive disorders, phobias, sleep disturbances, even dementia -- all are succumbing to the new science...
...astuteness, however. She is an intellectual, yes, and a realist. But as an old colleague notes, she has a mulish streak. "She can idealize the causes she's involved in just because they are hers," he observes. "All her geese are swans." Digging in too hard, even falling prey to fixations, has cost her some court decisions in the past. "A stubborn girl is our Mary," laughs Rogers...