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...only thing that will turn a man's head faster than a passing pretty girl is an antique car moving majestically down the slow lane on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Duesenberg, Auburn, Cord, Marmon, Stutz, Fierce-Arrow and Franklin have the glamour of old movie stars-and are usually better preserved. The value of these classics now runs into six figures. American Classic Cars by Henry Rasmussen (Picturama/Schocken; unpaged; $24.50) allows the subcompact set to relive the golden age of the luxury automobile. A look at masterpieces as rare as a glimpse of Garbo...
Outside major cities (where a cord of firewood can cost up to $90) good hardwood, such as ash, hickory, oak, hard maple, beech or black locust, can be had for little or nothing. Both national and state forests encourage homeowners to cut down and remove deadwood from specified areas, and many private owners encourage the same practice, since it helps clear the way for new growth. Geri Harrington, a lively Connecticut woman who has written an excellent new guide, The Wood-Burning Stove Book (Macmillan; $12.95), lists many other sources of free wood, such as utility companies, which constantly...
Experts differ on the actual efficiency of various models, but most good wood-burners deliver at least 60% of the fuel's potential in terms of heat-which is comparable to an oil burner. In terms of heating capacity, however, a cord of hardwood burned in a sound stove will deliver as much heat as 166 gal. of #2 fuel oil (Massachusetts price: about 48? per gal.), or 6,290 kilowatt hours of electricity (about $330 worth), or 264 therms of natural gas ($97). No wonder Americans are returning to their old flame...
...most significant, the creature had walked upright. Its foramen magnum, the hole through which the spinal cord enters the skull, was not in the rear of the skull as it is in an ape or any other animal that walks on all fours; as with Neanderthal. Peking and Java men, it was far enough forward in the skull to indicate that the spinal column was usually in a vertical position and that the young primate had been bipedal...
...kinds, and bacterial pneumonia is again on the rise; it takes an estimated 25,000 lives a year in the U.S. alone. The bacteria are also a common cause of damaging middle-ear infections in youngsters and meningitis?a dangerous inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord...