Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deep in a forest he met two hermits, with whom he practiced contemplation, until he saw that it led nowhere. Then he attached himself to five ascetics and fasted, until "when I touched my belly I felt my backbone through it." But this, too. proved a spiritual dead end, and...
The Honolulu Advertiser's Bob Krauss is a seasoned journalistic stunt man and the best-read columnist in Hawaii. Once, to test the legendary hospitality of Hawaiians, he walked for a week around the island of Oahu carrying no money, food or blankets, yet was well fed and housed...
As the experiment ended, Krauss breathed more easily: "I still don't think keeping house for a family of four youngsters is particularly difficult. To me, the hardest part of being a mother is boredom. You wash the same dishes every day, fold the same clothes, dust the same...
Although absorbed in his studies, Parsons still recognizes a tension between the individual as a social scientist and the individual as a social being. "Freud never talked psychoanalysis at the dinner table," he observes. "I disapprove of psychologists who experiment on their children." Parsons himself has three children, one son...
Today, smart cowmen are working with scientists' precision to put together the best beef animal. In the search for a hardy animal that can convert the least feed into the most beef in the least time, cattlemen intermix genetic strains, carefully card-indexing the good and bad points of...