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> A chameleon, when blinded, loses the power of changing color; when refused sex, the male dies of disappointment.
Although Emily Dickinson lived, in the words of Conrad Aiken, "a life perfectly devoid of outward event," there was one great mystery about her. To an even greater degree than was common among New England mystics, she was a recluse. This, according to the most popular, though by no means...
Unless the triumphant Los Alamos men decide to give Kiwi-A a second full-power run, last week's test will probably be its finish. After a few days, when radioactivity dies down somewhat, the unshielded reactor will be hauled along a railroad track by a remote-controlled locomotive...
Much of the latest bloodletting results from the aging Imam's efforts to make sure that his favorite son, Seif el Islam el Badr, gets the Imamate when the old man dies. Crown Prince Badr is a nice young man, introduced by Egypt's Nasser to anti-imperialist...
Why does he go on? The psychiatrists have grandly labeled the lovable fraud a borderline schizophrenic with a document syndrome and something like histrionic genius. But Biographer Crichton is content to quote Demara without comment. On the psychology of imposture: "Every time I take a new identity, some part of...