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.

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

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.