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...well be urban man's worst friend. The beast in the city jungle chews children, attacks joggers and howls into the night in a cramped apartment that makes it neurotic. When it does get out-twice a day, if its master can manage-it turns street and sidewalk alike into messy booby traps for pedestrians. The brassy blonde in the film Midnight Cowboy said it all when she coaxed her toy poodle: "Do it for mama...
...cast up by all of the world's elbow-bending cultures-which is to say the overwhelming majority of the world's cultures. Man in his cups is presumed to be irresponsible, out of control; by anaesthetizing the higher centers of the brain, alcohol unshackles the primordial beast. In Drunken Comportment, published by Aldine Press, two U.C.L.A. social scientists challenge this venerable theory. Intoxication, say Craig MacAndrew and Robert B. Edgerton, has rules equally as strict as sobriety. Once they are mastered, the drunk strives conscientiously, and usually successfully, to obey them...
HUNTLEY wanted to find the octopus. He found a braingray sac pressed into a corner of stone and glass, with a sad, small eye looking directly at him. The octopus looked like a corpulent ghost: but I suppose that a motionless, eight-handed beast isn't necessarily sad or pensive or dolorously malicious, and that for all I know-and I would much rather think so-he was bouyant with comatose hilarity, passing the time in genial mockery of this poor human being, hopelessly circumscribed with only a quarter of his arms. These thoughts prepared me for the seahorses. They...
...Sierra Macstra. Apparently, the Americans were beginning to picture themselves in fatigues, with rifles over their shoulders and a month's growth of beard. Che stopped for a second and said, "But I really envy you. Yours is the toughest job, for you live in the heart of the beast...
...have been answered by two scientists using a standard aerodynamic formula. Assuming that Pteranodon weighed only 40 Ibs. (it had an extremely delicate skeleton), Geologist Cherrie D. Bramwell and Physicist G.R. Whitfield of the University of Reading in Berkshire, England, used the formula to calculate that the beast had to attain an air speed of only 15 m.p.h. to take off. In winds above that velocity, they report in Nature, Pteranodon would only have needed to spread its wings to become airborne, easily taking off from level ground or the crest of a wave. "Thus," conclude Bramwell and Whitfield, "many...