Word: veterinarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Samuel Sadove, 25, a doctoral candidate in cetology (the study of whales), and Marine Veterinarian Jay Hyman, 46, tried to put a line around the animal's tail to haul it out to deeper water, the whale batted both men off their feet...
...surge forth on a hot Friday morning for an event that nobody, not even the sponsors, considers dramatic. The appeal of free anything, even books, doesn't quite explain it. Nor does the touching fact that the bookmobile visit was dedicated to the memory of a respected Claypool veterinarian and his wife, Dr. and Mrs. Harrison N. Waite, both well-known lovers of books. Indeed, the remarkable turnout is not accounted for even by the fact that for people in lonely or quiescent places, reading has always been the surest nutrient for imagination, the most reliable route...
Last week the zoo took matters into its own hands. Her bleating and scent marking tipped off officials that the female Ling-Ling was in heat, an event that lasts a scant five days each spring. So a team of 13, including Head Veterinarian Mitchell Bush and Anesthesiologist Michael Abramowitz of the Washington, D.C., Children's Hospital, gathered around the lady. Ling-Ling was anesthetized, then inseminated with approximately 3.2 cc of semen that had been collected from Hsing-Hsing last year and frozen. (Fresh semen had been collected from Hsing-Hsing shortly before the insemination, but the sperm...
Building a better mousetrap was too prosaic for Boston-born Veterinarian Henry Foster. Instead, he built a better mouse-millions of them. Thirty years ago, Foster, whose degree came from a nonaccredited school in Massachusetts, paid $1,300 for some traps and pens from an abandoned Maryland rat farm, shipped them to Boston and went into business as Charles River Breeding Laboratories, Inc. Today Charles River, located on a 60-acre spread in Wilmington, Mass., is the world's largest supplier of animals for scientific research. In 1979 the firm netted $3 million on sales of $30 million...