On buffet tables, garnished with glistening horsd'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.
This year has seen a shortage of 232 medicines, up from 70 in 2006, according to the University of Utah, which keeps the country's most comprehensive list.
In 1773, Phillis traveled to London, where her collection of " Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" became the first book of poetry published by an African-American woman.
Over time and through much hard work, the interpreter masters a vast array of tricks to keep up with speed, deal with challenging terminology, and handle a multitude of foreign accents.
Why have humans not evolved this variegated gang of anti-cancer proteins, or indeed the different suite of cellular protections enjoyed by blue whales, if they would confer such a clear-cut survival benefit?
Here Stephen wandered among the multifarious tombstones and looked in at the chancel window, dreaming of something that was likely to happen by the altar there in the course of the coming month.