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Herds of country cognoscenti await McManus' appearance in magazines and books (Never Sniff a Gift Fish, 1983). The 30 pieces assembled here run a bucolic gamut of outdoor misadventures. The author recalls his encounter with an inept wilderness guide: "Once he got us so lost I resorted to firing three...
Like the White Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, Cornell University Astronomer Thomas Gold has forged a distinguished career by believing six impossible things before breakfast. In the late 1940s, he, Astronomer Fred Hoyle and Mathematician Hermann Bondi roiled the cosmological community when they countered an early...
Thus Gorbachev makes clear that for all his misgivings, he still wants very much to go to Geneva to meet Reagan--not to compare what Reagan called "evidence" of each side's geopolitical righteousness but to talk turkey in the sense Karpov meant. And if he is as effective in...
Composing an ad with oneself as the product is an interesting psychological exercise, and probably good training in self-assertion. Truth will endure a little decorative writing, perhaps. The personals are a form of courtship that is more efficient, and easier on the liver, than sitting in bars night after...
"I hadn't expected to encounter so much hunger and poverty in the U.S. And what's worse--the people working in the food banks and other services said that the number of people needing to use these services has increased over the past few years," said Jane Harrigan, a...