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...COLOR-BLIND LOVE Realizing interracial romance isn't accepted by all, Marvel called for tolerance by having New Avenger Luke Cage wed private eye Jessica Jones in April...
...travel. He circled the earth, traversed Siberia, roamed the Australian outback and the Brazilian rain forest, climbed Vesuvius during an eruption, hunted elephants in Ceylon and slave ships in the Atlantic and wrote best-selling books about it all. He did all this despite a grave handicap: he was blind...
...promising naval officer, Holman lost his sight at age 25 after a mysterious illness. That was, to say the least, a calamity. Braille had not been invented yet. The blind were institutionalized and infantilized, expected to lead celibate lives mooching or begging or doing menial work. None of which appealed to our hero. Seeking a cure (not only for his blindness but also for agonizing rheumatism), he set off alone for southern France...
Holman had a talent for brushing up against interesting people and things--literally. He occasionally got into trouble for groping a piece of statuary or other priceless artifact, and his biographer takes full advantage of any occasion for a rich, satisfying digression. Holman met François Huber, a pioneering blind entomologist who, like Holman, had managed to carve out a career despite his disability. He studied bees using a special hinged hive that opened and shut like a book. Holman sailed with William Owen, the brilliant, illegitimate, eccentric naval captain who surveyed the coast of Africa...
...know if I will be able to go back to France. After a second time, they will kill me." CHRISTIAN VANNEQUE, French wine expert and panelist at a rematch of a famous 1976 face-off in which French wines were beaten by their Californian counterparts in a blind tasting. California wines took the top five places in last week's competition...