Progesterone concentrations rise rapidly in the mare and any post-ovulation treatment carries an increased risk of uterine contamination.

Jimmy Carter is the third President in a row to take a stab at reforming the “welfare mess” — an almost obligatory pejorative of political oratory.

In pockets of downtown Manhattan and in cities as far-flung as Miami and Los Angeles, young women in the vanguard are setting aside their trapeze and baby-doll dresses — and as often as not, their drainpipe jeans — in favor of a breezier, more audaciously colorful interpretation of boho chic.

Adnet asked the artist Maurice Savin to embellish his oak dining table with white ceramic caryatidlike legs.