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Carter is not very curious about China. Maybe that is because he thinks China is not very curious about him. India, on the other hand, is one of his favorites because the President's mother went there in the Peace Corps...
Spiegel developed his curious theory in the early '60s, after noting that a woman filmed during a trancelike seizure showed an unusual ability to roll her eyes up and down, while an unhypnotizable male patient showed no eye roll at all. Since then, in his clinical work, he has tested the theory on some 5,000 adults. His finding: the eye-roll scale accurately predicts hypnotizability 75% of the time...
...been an explosion of home vegetable and herb gardening in suburbs, city lots, and even in apartment closets equipped with growing lights and terrariums. While the average consumer was once largely limited to buying vegetables and fruits that are treated in gas chambers and plastic-packed to evade the curious nose and probing finger, farmers' markets and small vegetable stands are sprouting like mung beans ? which they also sell. In most big cities, there are at least a dozen cheese stores and several p?tisseries and charcuteries, where none existed a few years...
...museum) will become a mere Oberkommissär, or first-class commissioner. A Polizeisanitätskommissar (police health commissioner) will be reduced to just plain Kommissär, while a Kellereiinspektor (inspector of state wine cellars) will henceforth be known only as an Amtsrat, or office counselor. In a curious bow to tradition, Austria's 100 Wirkliche Hofräte (real court counselors), who are assistant secretaries in ministries, will be demoted only to the rank of Hofrat (court counselor) -even though no imperial court has existed in Austria for 60 years...
MONTAIGNE once commented that the clever are usually the least reliable observers of curious customs and events. They interpret them and, "to lend weight and conviction to their interpretations, they cannot help altering history a little," he said. This observation, made in 16th century France, applies all too well to the most recent work of cultural anthropologist Marvin Harris, Cannibals and Kings. This exposition of how the varieties of cultural behavior can be explained as adaptations to ecological conditions is unquestionably the product of an exceedingly clever brain...