(1) One of the contributors to the earlier symposium , but conspicuous by her absence in the recent one, was Ursula K. Le Guin, who will be seventy-five years old this year.(2) The intrinsic value of the materials employed predominates in the earlier model: the value of plate at an Athenian symposium , or the value of gold and ivory in the chryselephantine statues by Phidias.(3) Peter Holman, who writes the introductory essay to this symposium , is at pains to remove the obstruction.(4) The following papers are contributions to a symposium on these topics presented at the 1999 meetings of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.(5) At the symposium , women danced and sang and performed on the double-reeded aulos (like an oboe or shawm), or lyre, having been hired, sometimes, on the street.(6) A second set of papers from the symposium will be included in a later issue of the Journal.(7) In this article, I shall not attempt to deal with all of the areas covered by these differences, nor with the essays of all twelve contributors to Meyer's symposium .(8) After this, a symposium was held, discussing the nature of food in general and of salad in particular.(9) The Journal accepted a paper for a symposium ; but now it turns out that four years ago, a coauthor of the paper made what certainly seems like a racist statement.(10) The papers in this symposium are a result of the synergy that developed in those conversations.(11) The symposium is an annual conference of dioxin researchers.(12) Other contributors to this symposium are going to give general overviews of his contributions.(13) That symposium includes eight papers relating to topics also considered here.(14) The symposium , or drinking party, would normally have been equipped with vessels of precious metal.(15) Among other things, it's got a continuing symposium on legal education featuring essays from some of the brighter legal minds in the country.(16) There are 26 symposium papers included in this volume.