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...ride and fly a hang glider. In Pampa, Texas, Plumber Ronnie Farmer, 29, ate 100 hot jalapeno peppers in 15 minutes, destroying the previous record (94 in 111 minutes) and probably his innards as well. In Japan, Hideaki Tomoyori has learned to carry the mathematical formulation pi (3.141 etc.) to 20,000 places, putting to shame his own earlier record of 15,151 places...
MARILYN FERGUSON, editor of the Brain/Mind Bulletin, a newsletter about new discoveries in consciousness, brain function, biofeedback, meditation, dreams, psychiatry, etc., has ostensibly written a book not on religions or religions change, but about social and political transformations. However, these transformations are predicted on the so-called consciousness revolution, the inner changes produced by a decade of millions of altered awarenesses, self-actualizations, encounter sessions, gurus and shrinks...
...exciting as interferon research appears to be, it is, like most modern medicine, on the wrong track. Chemicals in the environment-food preservatives, air pollution, industrial solvents, chlorinated pesticides, radiation, tobacco smoke, etc. -are the causes of many cases of cancer. Why concentrate on the cure when the cause is the problem...
...gained sophomores Charles Storey, bowman of the first freshman boat last year, and J.B. Kelly, scion of one of America's finest rowing families (his father won the Head of the Charles senior singles this year; his great-grandfather won the single sculls medal in the 1924 Olympics, etc...
...closeups of the washing of your dirty linen in the public square; you teach us how to "whip someone's ass"; million-dollar Hollywood stars fall over each other to entertain us; we get the intimate life story of all your candidates, etc. Just imagine how boring it would be if you did the whole thing in less than three weeks. May it never happen...