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...Boning for Bachots. Whether in London or São Paulo, a lycée education is a demanding, no-nonsense process. Greek, Latin and logic, mathematics and a firm grounding in scientific studies are standard elements in the curriculum. French literature is its very backbone. And wherever the lycée, its students will be working from the same textbooks, will bone up for the same exams at the same time of the year. The questions for the bachot, the dreaded baccalaureate examination that determines who shall-and who shall not-be eligible for university entrance, are formulated...
Slivers of Bone. Lincoln himself, according to Psychiatrist Edward Kempf, suffered from a mother fixation, accentuated by her death when he was nine. Other psychiatrists agree that it was largely responsible for his periodic, almost schizoid, bouts of depression, for his eagerness to pardon military deserters (the mothers of the country, he argued, should not be made to suffer more than they had), and for the "exhibitionistic and self-destructive impulses" reflected in a recurrent dream that he would be assassinated before his second term was out. As for Walt Whitman, he would never have poured so much sexuality into...
...game, it would seem, is inexhaustible. Why did Julius Caesar love oysters? Who was Teddy Roosevelt really aiming at when he plugged a Tasmanian tiger? But it is a bit like reconstructing a mastodon from a toenail or a sliver of bone...
Injuries have hurt, of course. Roseboro will be out of action for a week, and Pitcher Johnny Podres has been idle since May because of a bone chip in his elbow. Outfielder Tommy Davis was hampered early in the season by a shoulder injury-but that scarcely explains how a man who led the National League in batting for two years in a row can be hitting .272 now. Moans Dodger Coach Pete Reiser: "There were at least nine ball games we would have won if Davis could just have hit a long...
...invented an indestructible garment, only to be frustrated by businessmen shocked at its non-obsolescence. The indestructible suit is still a fantasy, but something almost as good is on the way. This one will not stretch or shrink, is impervious to stains and moths, goes from soaking wet to bone-dry in seconds, holds a press and defies wrinkles. It will be made of fiber glass, a versatile material that is beginning to be used in hundreds of consumer items after years of narrow specialization...