Word: wise
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...Randall Wise, 32, and his associates in a Massachusetts firm called Animal Optics, Inc., are responsible for that ophthalmological advance. Wise had learned from his father, a California poultry farmer, that chickens with cataracts suffer reduced vision and also lose their tendency to peck one another to death, a lamentable chicken habit that can result in the destruction of up to 25% of. a tightly penned flock. In fact, the elder Wise had experimented with distorting lenses to reproduce the effects of cataracts and discovered that transparent colored lenses worked just as well...
...Randall Wise has in turn tried several colors, but finds that red is best, at least for the thousands of Leghorn hens he has personally fitted. Red lenses somehow not only diminish cannibalism but also reduce the quantity of food needed to produce a dozen eggs. "With contact lenses the chickens have less stress," he says. "They are calmer and easier to handle...
...diameter red lenses, now being made in test-market quantities, will cost about 20? a pair and last the laying life of the bird, about a year. Wise says the tranquilizing effect works not only for hens, but for turkeys, pheasants and even pigs. Not, however, for quail. Far from being calmed, they go berserk...
...significance by a merciless post-Watergate press corps. A sizable slice of the citizenry willingly guided the influx of strangers round the sites-Jimmy's birthplace, his country home, his father's simple grave. (The ambitious monuments in the cemetery are not marked CARTER, however, but WISE and FAUST...
...England and America women poets have often fared poorly. Bemoaning the inequalities that have dogged their sex, Virginia Woolf wrote in A Room of One's Own, "When one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet or some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor crazed with the torture that her gift...