Lately, I’ve been carrying around a couple of cowboys in my car. One of them is riding a bay horse and leading a buckskin against the backdrop of the Southwest sky. The other one is moving a small herd of Hereford cattle across a stream, cigarette dangling from his mouth. A real Marlboro man. They’re… Continue reading Get Along Little Doggies
The great Greek physician and teacher Hippocrates (460 BC-370 BC) described several kinds of cancer, referring to them with the Greek word "carcinos", meaning crab or crayfish. This name comes from the appearance of the cut surface of a solid malignant tumor, with the "veins stretched out on all sides as the animal the crab has its feet, whence it derives its name."