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Discover Colorado: Its People, Places, and Times provides an in-depth look at the geography, history, economics, and government of the state of Colorado. This book is a thoughtful, engaging text th...

The pineal gland is the circadian oscillator in the chicken, regulating diversefunctions ranging from egg laying to feeding. Here, we describe the isolation andcharacterization of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) isolated from a chicken pinealgland cDNA library. A total of 192 unique sequences were analysed and submittedto GenBank; 6% of the ESTs matched neither GenBank cDNA sequences nor thenewly assembled chicken genomic DNA sequence, three ESTs aligned with sequencesdesignated to be on the Z_random, while one matched a W chromosome sequence andcould be useful in cataloguing functionally important genes on this sex chromosome.Additionally, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were identified and validatedin 10 ESTs that showed 98% or higher sequence similarity to known chicken genes.Here, we have described resources that may be useful in comparative and functionalgenomic analysis of genes expressed in an important organ, the pineal gland, in amodel and agriculturally important organism. Published version

This article examines cookbooks produced by American communes in the early 1970s, considering each as the historical record of a unique political and social community. It also analyzes them as still-relevant examples of how eating habits can reflect political ideals. The variety of these books testifies to the many ways of negotiating this question. The first part provides an overview of the counter-cultural movement and the role of food within it. The conviction that society had gone terribly awry led to the founding of thousands of utopian communities, determined to invent and model alternatives. Food was inseparable from the most closely held values of commune residents, who tried to live what they believed through making conscious choices about what they ate, how they grew or got their food, and how they divided the labor. What people discussed most on communes was apparently not sex, not "the revolution," but food. These eclectic, irreverent cookbooks remind us that eating is seldom a pure expression of political conviction; it also reflects considerations of economy, availability, ethnicity, personal history, and sensual gratification. Interspersing recipes with creative writing and psychedelic art, one cookbook explains how to skin a porcupine, cook with hashish, and make Grand Marnier sabayon. Another advocates bread-baking and shop-lifting in its critique of capitalism; a third approaches cooking as part of Buddhist practice. Throughout, their leisurely, process-oriented approach to food is the antithesis of both Betty Crocker and Martha Stewart. They show how cooking and eating can bring together pleasure and politics in unexpected ways.

Outreach and promotion of library resources and services is an increasing challenge in the online world since many of our users do not often visit the library. This is particularly true in science and engineering libraries, where much of our content is available online and our users tend to be technologically savvy. We need to find new ways to reach our communities and draw them back into the library, both physically and virtually. In this article, we will discuss various approaches and technologies that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineering and Science Libraries are employing to educate our users about the resources and services available to them [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]