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...Herman is a tiny but otherwise normally formed man who makes his living imitating an icky-sweet, or perhaps brain-damaged, prepubescent boy. The act consists mainly of mincing, prancing and an inane giggle, so that sometimes it seems he is a little mixed up and may be doing a bad female impersonation. His Big Adventure (directed by Tim Burton) consists of trying to recover his stolen bicycle. His big mystery lies in his strange appeal for adolescents. Is he yet another vehicle through which they can sentimentalize their childhoods? Is he just the latest grotesque...
...have something to do with the rise of feminism in the West. "The shape of the female navel has changed in recent years," Morris announces, a statement that, if true, ought to make headlines the world over. But worrying about such matters as truth is a function of the brain, an organ that does not fall within the fleshly delights of Bodydwatching...
...Mammoth Hunters continues the best-selling adventures of Ayla, the Cro-Magnon sexpot with the brain of gold. Having said goodbye to the Neanderthals who raised her (The Clan of the Cave Bear), and having met the blond hunk Jondalar (The Valley of Horses), the queen of the ice age finds it hard to be both beautiful and brilliant. After a hard day as animal trainer, physician, fire maker and slingshot instructor, Ayla must decide whom to choose for "a turn in the furs." Should it be dependable Jondalar or stylish Ranec, the romantic, dark-skinned artist who actually asks...
Investigators in Largo, Fla., last week disclosed the results of an autopsy of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman who was the subject of a bitter struggle over whether to remove her feeding tube--pitting her husband Michael against her parents, right-to-lifers and members of Congress--before she was allowed to die in March. The autopsy, vindicating Michael, showed her damage was irreversible, she had gone blind, and her brain had shrunk to half its normal size. Case closed, right? Not yet. Though the autopsy quieted even some of Michael's G.O.P. opponents, Florida Governor Jeb Bush...
...Isaac Asimov's sci-fi novel I, Robot and Japanese manga comics, Sankai has produced a suit that weighs up to 22 kg and supports its own weight-and the wearer's-with a metal frame. When the wearer moves a major muscle, a nerve signal sent from the brain to the muscle generates a detectable electrical pulse on the skin's surface. HAL's bioelectrical skin sensors pick up the pulse and send a signal to a battery-powered wireless computer, worn as a backpack, which triggers HAL's motors. The university has set up a commercial venture, Cyberdyne...