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...male has a startling effect on one of the several female fish in his harem: she becomes a male. Within a few hours of her liberation from the influence of a male, the head female in the harem begins to display male mannerisms. She reconnoiters the borders of the absent male's territory and pays aggressive calls on the other females. Within four days her courtship and spawning behavior cannot be distinguished from a male's. From 14 to 18 days after her accession to power she actually becomes a functioning male, physiologically capable of releasing sperm...
...captain Maud Wood, playing for an absent member of the starting 'Cliffe eleven, took a pass from Kathy Agoos in the left wing to fire a difficult head-on goal early in the game. Another goal by Wood, plus two successive goals by Wood, plus two successive goals by center forward Sally Foster, put Radcliffe ahead, 4-0, about four minutes before halftime...
Histrionics were conspicuously absent Thursday at the Law School when Twentieth Century Fox began filming "The Paper Chase", a movie about a first-year Harvard Law student...
...here is a committee full of purposefulness. Bok has named four Fellows of the Corporation to decide all future questions of Harvard's responsibility as a corporate shareholder. His name is consciously absent from the membership. But, he says, the subcommittee is not a dodge: It is a way to guarantee careful thought on shareholder questions, while leaving Bok free to "do all of the things that are expected of me in various areas of the University...
This race, in which three crews from each school race in one big heat, is unusual in that it demands team racing tactics that are absent from most regattas...