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When Lemuel Gulliver encountered the Struldbruggs in the course of his exotic travels, he was enchanted by their immortality--until his hosts set him straight. By age 80, most of the Struldbruggs were "melancholy and dejected," so cut off from pleasure that they were "dead to natural affection." By 90...
The project's self-volunteered guinea pigs don high-tech gear that monitors their circulatory, respiratory and nervous systems. With their face masks and unique watches that measure and record heart and pulse rates, they look like astronauts in training--an apt resemblance as it turns out. "If you go...
When the party faithful gathered in San Diego, the biggest party animals were lobbyists. An estimated $25 million in corporate cash sloshed around for everything from the hospitality yachts that gridlocked the harbor to the G.O.P. gala at the Embarcadero Park, the single most profitable fund raiser Republicans have ever...
Marriage," the handsome young Senator John F. Kennedy told a friend as he contemplated the not entirely palatable prospect, "means the end of a promising political career, as it has been based up to now almost completely on the old sex appeal." How quaint that fear seems now, at a...
Romance languages concentrators, by the way, will find the French, Spanish and assorted combinations of the two to be a real treat. Everybody else will have to deal with subtitles.