Natural Science - period ended 5.15.2006

Natural Science/Weather/Howard, Luke/*/Oh I say, what a super nimbus/The Sunday Times/London/England/UK/14-May-06//... His book draws on meteorology and mythology, but owes a debt to Luke Howard, a 19th-century Quaker businessman whose 1802 work, On the Modifications of Clouds ...

Natural Science/Weather/Howard, Luke//Something in the air/Sunday Herald/London/England/UK/7-May-06//... The clouds were first given their beautiful but slightly off-putting Latin names in 1802 by the Quaker cloudspotter Luke Howard, who proposed the same ...

Natural Science/Animal Husbandry/Jackson, Gretchen/A resounding victory for the traditionalists/Telegraph.co.uk/London/England/UK/7-May-06//...But there aren't that many races around the world that can look the 2,000 Guineas in the eye when it comes to future stallion stature. The Kentucky Derby would be one. It came and went eight hours, 25 minutes after the Guineas. Mrs Gretchen Jackson bred both winners. She, incidentally, is a Quaker. Maybe she's a lesson to all of us because she's definitely doing something right.. ...