Word: americanus
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Like moths around candles, a number of gifted writers have been dazzled by that subspecies of Homo americanus, the murdering sociopath. Witness Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision. Or this well-crafted account of the fatal swath cut by an Indiana-born dentist named Kenneth Z. Taylor...
...hard enough on humans, but for Homarus americanus it can be deadly. As many as one-fourth of the Maine lobsters on flights to burgeoning markets in Asia die during the long trip, even though they travel in comfy insulated containers. A research team organized by the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine is considering an answer to the problem: a rest stop at a first-class lounge in Hawaii. If they were plunked into a so-called relay pound, the weary crustaceans could stretch their claws and absorb oxygen from Pacific seawater for a day or so before...
Even when T.M.U. teaches a "dead and completely useless language," as it does in Roman Studies 25, it does so in a way that will assist the modern student. Thus, the matriculator at T.M.U. learns how to say travellers checks in Latin and ask, "Ubi est Americanus Expressus...
...even outfit the body as if they exercised it. Togged out in sneaks and sweats, they proclaim their affiliation, in spirit if not in the flesh, with the fitness generation. The prototype runners below offer a look at the characteristics and habits of that new U.S. animal, Homo exercens americanus...
Once upon a time, Americanus touristus roamed the world freely, leaving its green-paper tracks everywhere, while its own habitat remained a preserve too costly for the world's other species to visit. Today, with their currencies stronger in relationship to the dollar, more and more foreigners are taking the grand tour of the U.S. In 1960, only some 800,000 came to visit; in 1979, nearly 6.5 million visitors are expected. TIME Contributor Jane O'Reilly accompanied a group of French tourists and wrote this account of the journey...