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Moore has published more than 20 articles and books on topics ranging from Law and Anthropology (her specialty), to the Chagga tribe of Tanzania, to "asymmetrical cross-cousin marriage and Crow-Omaha terminology." Choice magazine named her book, Law and Process, one of 1978's best academic works...
Karl Mengele & Sons now has a payroll of 1,200; 1984 revenues amounted to $82 million. The firm is run by Dieter Mengele and his cousin Karl-Heinz and is considered a fair employer and a generous civic donor. According to local police, the Mengeles have never reported a threat against their lives or their properties. Advertising signs saying MENGELE-GUNZBURG dot the sides of roads in the vicinity of the town; the firm's slogan, MENGELE -- THE BETTER IDEA, is splashed across the side of a plant building, clearly visible to motorists passing on a nearby expressway...
...General Fabian Ver, armed forces Chief of Staff and cousin of Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, involved in a conspiracy to kill exiled Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino? For the past six months, state prosecutors in Manila have tried to prove that charge as part of their case against 26 men who are accused in connection with the assassination of Aquino on Aug. 21, 1983, as he descended from a China Airlines plane at Manila International Airport. Last week the prosecutors ran into a formidable obstacle: in a five-page ruling, the three justices conducting the trial threw out the major evidence...
...real terror of the Everglades is Australia's Melaleuca quinquenervia, also known as cajeput, punk tree and paperbark tree. A close cousin of the eucalyptus, with shaggy bark and pale yellow flowers, it was introduced to Florida in 1906 by Forester John Gifford of the Department of Agriculture, who thought it might attract commercial woodcutters. Unfortunately, its / hardwood interior, hidden by a thick soft bark, is runny with water and difficult to saw. Moreover, the Melaleuca sucks up three times as much water as other swamp trees, thus drying out the land, and its leaves are filled with eucalyptol...
...been outrageous." The Great Gatsby offers a classic instance of jazz-age chatter: " 'He's a bootlegger,' said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers. 'One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil. Reach me a rose, honey, and pour me a last drop into that there crystal glass.' " In The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark's prepubescent girls wonder, as children always will: " 'Miss Brodie said they clung to each other with passionate abandon on his last leave...