Word: veterinarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though weakening, the primal links between humans and wild animals are not yet entirely dissolved. In The Great Divorce (Doubleday; 340 pages; $22.50), novelist Valerie Martin weaves together three narratives to explore those connections. Ellen, the veterinarian for a New Orleans zoo, does not like the compromises she has to make. But, she understands, "that's the deal." She feels the hopelessness of preserving animals in "a netherworld of human scrutiny and intervention" by maintaining an ark for captive species that will never sleep freely under a night sky. In her marriage, she accepts her husband's infidelities. Finally...
...year as they struggled to cut and append to the family's Holiday Card List: If we sent a card to the Johnsons last year but the Johnsons dissed us, is it okay to dis them back this year? If the family dermatologist gets a card, does the family veterinarian get one too? How about the family insurance agent? What the hell is his name again...
...Pushmepullyou," if you didn't know, is a two-headed animal from the Dr. Doolittle stories; the Doctor is less a weird joke than a serious point of reference for GBV's achievements. Like the miraculous veterinarian, GBV main guy Robert Pollard has a respect for the diverse beasts of the rock and roll jungle that lets him get them to do his bidding. Like Dr. Doolittle, Pollard can convince animals that would normally be at each other's throats--a two-chord, thumping stomp, say, and its natural enemy, a spiraling, self-involved vocal line--to team...
...disease. About 60% of the raccoon population would have to be eliminated before the virus would be curbed. A better idea, says CDC's Rupprecht, is to vaccinate wild animals, just as pets are given protection. He helped develop an experimental oral vaccine for raccoons as a research veterinarian at Philadelphia's Thomas Jefferson University and the Wistar Institute, a biomedical research center. The vaccine is contained in bait and dropped into areas where raccoons roam. In tests done in New Jersey, the animals ate the bait, and many of them developed antibodies to the virus...
...press refers to her as a superwoman, and the list of her accomplishments tallies with that tag. Still, she was something of a late bloomer. Friends remember her as a child who loved sports and animals more than books. She once thought about becoming a veterinarian and, until she quit the Foreign Ministry, kept pictures of dogs and kittens on her office desk. When the occasion called for it, she was fearless in standing up to teachers and willing to speak for the class when she felt that injustice was being done...