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...artist were always a man. Thus a search is under way for a set of sexless singular pronouns. A Women's Liberation lexicographer who styles herself Varda One has come up with ve, vis and ver. Others have suggested singularizing they, their and them to te, ter and tern. Someone has invented co, cos, co, which takes a pleasant form in the coself construction, and another added her and him together and got herm, which ve pointed out with reprehensible etymology is "as in hermaphrodite...
...miles each year from British Columbia to Mexico City and back. The ruddy turnstone and bristle-thighed curlew fly more than 2,000 miles nonstop from Alaska to the Hawaiian islands on their way to the South Pacific. The long-distance champion of them all is the Arctic tern, which makes an annual round trip of 22,000 miles...
...After several sleepless nights (and the loss of several former good friends), I humbly present a koala named Coca, a tern named One-Good (his family includes identical twins named Left and Right), a panda named Monium-and a gnu named Watts...
...Bradley Hospital, which is now headed by Dr. Maurice Laufer, an authority on brain disorders in the young. "In many cases," he says, "if you get to the child early, before the secondary emotional problems set in-the family's reaction to the hyperkinesis and the pat tern of failing in school-this is all they need...
Harvard's JV ??? team ??unered its first defent of the season yesterday afternoon losing to the Southes?tern Massa? ???? University versity 2-1 in new Bedford. After th??? scpre???ss quarters Souteastern ta??d twoce in the ???period the? h???d off a late Harvard ?h?re? to ?all out the victory...