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Perhaps so, but the skills and know-how of the Steptoe-Edwards team are almost universally acclaimed, even if its inclination toward secrecy is not. Silver-haired and elegant, Steptoe is a pioneer in the use of laparoscopy, a technique for exploring the abdomen and observing the reproductive tract by means of a long, thin telescope equipped with a fiber optics light. He is also an impeccable dresser, enjoys watching cricket and is a fine organist. In the words of a colleague, he is "a man of character and determination who if someone is speaking nonsense is perfectly willing...
During the day, life in the mountain valley where the mission's 4,500-acre tract is located still appears as serene as it was in 1964 when the present rector, Father Keble Prosser, first came out from England to run St. Augustine's. The dirt road twists and turns its way up a hillside, into which are built low, one-story brick classroom buildings and dormitories, shaded by long verandas and heavy foliage. St. Augustine's 14th century bell continues to ring out across the valley. As the African sun climbs through the mist to strike...
Face it--you didn't come to Harvard for the food. And that's a good thing, because between the swill they serve at the Union and the kind of junk you're liable to pick up between beers at some of the local taverns, your digestive tract is in for a long, gaseous summer. After all, if you feel like eating--and it's become a remarkably popular pastime here over the years--you've only got three choices, none of which is going to earn you a place in the dietician's Hall of Fame: Harvard food (which...
...writing in regards to an article which appeared in The Crimson on May 3 announcing the "discovery" that Limnoria has no bacteria in its digestive tract. Dixie Lee Ray pointed this out in a paper entitled "Nutritional Physiology of Limnoria" which appeared in the book "Marine Boring and Fouling Organisms" edited by Ray and published in 1959. Mark Plotkin Extension...
...animals are small marine wood-borer isopod crustaceans called Limnoria spp. There is one species of terrestial wood-borer crustaceans which also has a bacteria-free digestive tract...