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...flesh. The main lesson to be learned from John is that people cannot be told how to feel about their sexuality. While most of us are irrevocably grounded in a clear sexual identity, some boys will always feel like girls, and vice versa, regardless of what society or plastic surgeons...
...probe him for stories of burglaries, fights and the like, but the most exciting thing he can remember is the time a couple of Fox Club punchees, as part of their initiation, asked him to take a picture of them, a customer and a plastic phallus. And, he recalls, Drew Bledsoe, Jay Leno and Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans have all been in to Noke's at some point. When Bledsoe stopped by, "a lot of the customers were dumbfounded," he says with modesty in his voice, "they just couldn't believe he'd come in here, to Pinocchio...
...different if the indignities of airport security served a self-evident lifesaving purpose. But the first thing the inquisitive traveler learns is that the X-ray machines that constitute the principal barrier between parking lot and planes can detect only teaspoons and hairpins and are utterly indifferent to the plastic devices favored by modern mass murderers. Why not buy machines that can actually detect bombs? Too expensive, the airlines say, as if airplanes were cheap. And of course nothing reveals the purely ceremonial nature of airport security like the long-standing rule against telling bomb-related jokes in the vicinity...
DIED. ROBERT KLARK GRAHAM, 90, optical physicist who developed shatterproof plastic eyeglass lenses; in Seattle. Later in life Graham established a controversial sperm bank for Nobel Prize winners. He was criticized as a eugenicist, but his bank has been credited with fathering more than 200 children...
...batteries, no plastic, no computerized junk--just handcrafted wooden toys," Hardina said...