Word: wolfs
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Interpreted historically, they record the harshness and cruelty of rural life. In the peasant version, Little Red Riding Hood does not escape the wolf. Darnton's portrait of France is impressionistic, a series of sketches, but it is striking, original and often very clever. Félicitations...
...There are more records in medicine than any other endeavor in American history," says Richard J. Wolf, curator of Countway's department of rare books. "And since some of the earliest doctors in America practiced here in Boston, one idea for such a library developed in New England," he adds...
...Wolf brings collections to Countway which enable historians to research medicine from its beginnings to the present time. At its inception, medicine was essentially based upon the natural sciences; botany, geology, and mineralogy. Consequently, the Countway collection of rare books include works by Isaac Newton and Marie Curie. There are one thousand incunabula, numerous papers on inoculation by Madison and Jefferson, the "Gray's Anatomy," and a host of letters by early American doctors like Benjamin Rush and Joseph Warren from which modern clinicians pick up new medical methods of treatment. Even obsolete medical procedures like blood letting and stretching...
Berg and other environmentalists contend that farm animals are in much greater danger from wild dogs and coyotes. Blaming the wolf for every kill, she argues, is almost "a psychological need." Says she, with just a touch of hyperbole: "The wolf is an intelligent animal that groups together and does just what a hunter does when he gets together with his pals." Bowing to antiwolf passions, Interior authorities last summer announced a limited wolf-trapping season in which up to 160 animals a year could be taken in farming areas...
Environmental groups, including an organization called HOWL (Help Our Wolves Live), filed suit in U.S. district court challenging the Interior Department's decision. Game officials replied that by making the wolf a legitimate trophy animal again, its status would be enhanced among its human foes and, therefore, it would be regarded more highly and thus protected. Earlier this month, Judge Miles Lord vigorously rejected this convoluted argument. Said he: "The wolf has long been depicted in story and song as a mysterious menace to man's existence . . . But Congress has now mandated that each person who would slay...