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And all to what end? To entertain, of course, but to do more than that. By junking the cages and building vast biological gardens, the zoos provide a decent, delightful place for animals and people to meet and, with luck, fall in love. Once that bond is made, the visitors...
Denny McLain, the Detroit Tigers pitcher, had a delightful alibi for two mashed toes that cost the 1967 pennant. He said he hurt himself shooing a raccoon away from a garbage can. Whether the raccoon had a Mob connection was a matter of speculation, but McLain was definitely the garbage...
Sometimes O'Rourke adopts an air of bemusement, reminiscent of Robert Benchley in mid-quandary. But most of his entries could not be written by any other satirist at any other period: "The most delightful introduction you can make is to introduce an important person to someone he or she...
His fellow conservatives, however, find him delightful. Says John Buckley, spokesman for the Republican Congressional Committee: "Gingrich is classic agitprop -- great with devising the arguments to forward our revolution. I see him as one-third Thomas Paine, one-third Winston Churchill and one-third Genghis Khan."
Want to know how many credit cards Americans carry? Or how many dozen eggs the U.S. produces each year? The answers to these questions (841 million and 5.8 billion, respectively) and an astounding number of others are to be found in a factual gold mine called the Statistical Abstract of...