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Naturalists have noticed for at least a century that insects have a way of mimicking each other. Butterflies of two species not closely related often show similar patterns of bright colors. Generations of entomologists have suspected that nature thus protects a butterfly that birds consider delicious by enabling it to...
Of course, Japanese cuisine is generally ranked among the world's best. Sukiyaki, though, is not properly a typical Japanese dish; for one thing it was unknown in Japan until about sixty years ago. Also, one meal of sukiyaki contains more meat than the average Japanese eats in a year...
Your reporter has evidently never tasted whale steak. Otherwise he would never describe the Attorney General as "munching manfully on a whale steak." While in Norway three years ago, we went to a fishmonger's to buy dinner. Imagine our surprise when a shopper advised us to try the...
The other two works on the program were Hayden's D major quartet, Opus 20, No. 4, and Beethoven's F minor quartet, Opus 95. The performance of the Beethoven was occasionally uncoordinated, rarely clear, and never balanced. Haydn, as Temianka remarked, wrote for the diletanti of the local aristocracy...
As for the episode at Deraa, Nutting rejects Rattigan's thesis, and believes that the Turks never suspected the identity of their captive; if they had, they would never have let him escape. The reason Deraa was a turning point in Lawrence's life, Nutting argues, was the...