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...second leg of his thesis, Ardrey turns to zoology. He cites studies of certain animals, mostly nesting birds, which show that they establish a territory and fiercely defend it against intruders long before they think about getting a mate to share their domain with them. Other studies have demonstrated that animals that live in groups often have social hierarchies with dominant and subordinate members. Man, Ardrey says, has inherited both these animal customs, and so it is natural for him to kill for property or status. Ardrey believes that this information has been deliberately kept from the public, but that...
...Elvis Presley, he drinks nothing stronger than milk and could be a U.S. college freshman. And despite all his rock and riot, he has received critical praise that Elvis Presley would be unlikely to get even if he spent 200 years at the Yale School of Music. "In the domain of modern music," the music critic of the respected cultural weekly Arts has written, "Johnny Hallyday has raised several original points. He is probably the best abstract singer the world has ever known...
...higher dimension, the supernatural is just a question of one's dimensional status. For a two-dimensional body, a three-dimensional one would be supernatural, and the same logic applies to steps into the fourth, fifth and any other dimensions. In this context, says Pollard, "even the supernatural domains of heaven and hell, which have been so universally acknowledged in human experience, have as much claim on reality as does the restricted spaciotemporal domain which constitutes nature. The only difference is that the boundary between the natural and the supernatural is then rather differently drawn, and in a manner...
...heirs sold the rights to Printers George and Charles Merriam of Springfield, Mass., but the Merriams failed to get sole right to Webster's name, which is now in the public domain -hence the modern multiplicity of "Webster's" dictionaries...
...Like Cattle." The proud and handsome Caraja nation has dwindled in two centuries from 500,000 to 1,200, and its domain, which once stretched 870 miles from northern Mato Grosso to the sea, has shrunk to the shores of a jungle island. Of the Pau d'Arcos, some 3,000 strong at the beginning of the century, a lone survivor remains-an old woman wearing out her days as a stranger in another tribe. Many tribes, among them the Amoipiras and the Potiguaras, live only in the history books...