Word: wolfe
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...team of researchers led by Epidemiologist Wolf Szmuness of the New York Blood Center has concluded a large-scale and successful test of a hepatitis B vaccine. The test involved 1,083 homosexuals, who are at particularly high risk of developing hepatitis B because of their sexual practices. Half the men received the vaccine, the rest a placebo. The men were given three injections in six months. Only eleven cases of hepatitis B occurred among the vaccinated men, compared with 60 in the control group...
NONFICTION: Abroad, Paul Fussell American Dreams: Lost and Found. Studs Terkel ∙ China Men. Maxine Hong Kingston ∙ Island Sojourn, Elizabeth Arthur-Lyndon. Merle Miller ∙ The Soul of the Wolf. Michael Fox ∙ Walter Lippmann and the American Century, Ronald Steel
More like wolves? Yes indeed. Take sex, for instance. Wolf couples, writes Fox, "enjoy mutual love and affiliation without year-round conflicts over and desire for sex." Unlike men and women (and male dogs), who are highly promiscuous and make love more or less all the year round, wolves, both male and female, breed only once a year, though they have a longish courtship period when the male brings the female good things to eat, sticks to play with, and may, by bowing, invite her to puppylike play...
...other wolves' pups, in what Fox calls "a time of apprenticeship and service to their society." In any pack, however, unless its ranks have been seriously depleted, only one female each year gives birth to a litter. Even more notable, some studies suggest, the alpha male (or executive wolf), who makes all pack decisions and conducts the hunt, tends not to breed-perhaps because it would distract him from command. Says Fox primly: Man needs to "emulate the wolf ... in exercising greater dominion over sexuality and incredible reproductive potential...
...Wolf survival is apparently based on recognition of two facts: overbreeding in the pack and wanton destruction of game will bring disaster; cooperation is necessary for survival. These conditions used to apply to man. They may again, and perhaps do now, though the book's anthropomorphic analogies are not always convincing on this point. What does come through is Fox's overwhelming love of wolves, a sense of communion with them that goes beyond words - something that anyone who has loved a large dog will understand. The most powerful words in the book, though, are Henry Beston...