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People obviously open up to Howard, sometimes at their peril. Count the bodies garroted with their own jargon in her previous book Please Touch: A Guided Tour of the Human Potential Movement (1970). Her new work is a tour of the most human of all movements, the family. She visits...
Lying astride the equator in the Pacific Ocean some 600 miles off the coast of South America, the Galápagos Islands are a fabled natural wonderland-of giant tortoises, dragonlike iguanas and birds so fearless that they ignore the approach of a human. Old Spanish explorers called them Las...
All these affecting stories are chronicles of personal trial. Keng Erh is a scientist, returned from America, who enjoys the privileged status of a leading intellectual: a maid, a small apartment of his own, even a refrigerator. But he is forbidden to marry the woman of his choice because of...
For more exotic European fare at moderate prices, you might try Grendel's Den, on Boylston St., and the Blue Parrot, Mt. Auburn St. And then, of course, there are the more specialized restaurants--Ahmed's (next to the Galeria) for French-Moroccan food, Brazilia (one of the better small...
Kite flying is no childish pastime. It demands skill, ingenuity and an attention span rarely possessed by the young. Some of the great kite innovators, after all, have included such mature fellows as Leonardo da Vinci, Ben Franklin, the Wright brothers and Alexander Graham Bell, whose tetrahedral model once lifted...