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Suspicions about hormone disrupters were raised a few years ago by Theodora Colborn, a zoologist with the World Wildlife Fund who did a study on the reproductive health of Great Lakes wildlife in the late 1980s. Colborn discovered that the young of 16 predator species, including fish, birds, reptiles and mammals, were failing to survive to adulthood or could not reproduce if they did. All the animals ate fish from the Great Lakes, which were contaminated with a variety of hormone-like chemicals...
...father A.L. Kroeber was a renowned anthropologist, and her mother Theodora wrote nonfiction, principally on the American Indian. Those who do not know these facts about Ursula K. Le Guin could probably deduce them from her 23rd book. Always Coming Home can be read as a novel, but it is really something else: a scientific-looking compendium of information about a people who might exist in the distant future. They are called the Kesh, a gentle tribe living in the nine towns of the valley of the river Na, somewhere in Northern California. Le Guin's fieldwork into their rites...
...down, get married and start their own families, but they are still not your basic moss gatherers. Two weeks after the birth of his daughter, Guitarist Keith Richards, 41, was off for a two- month stay in Paris to cut a new Stones album. Back in New York City, Theodora Dupree should not have any trouble remembering her rock-'n'-roll dad. Explains Model Mom Patti Hansen, 29: "He made us a tape before he left, called My Girl, that has all his own music on it, all his new stuff. It's especially for the baby. He wants...
...Theodora (Dorie) Klissas Currier House...
...Theodora (Dorie) Klissas Currier House...