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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Edwin O. Reischauer's near and dear ones are going to have a tough time wrapping the present he wants. "I'm like anyone else," says the University Professor Emeritus and Japan expert. "What I want is time...
...sports enthusiast, there's The Macmillan Baseball Calendar, which includes key dates from the past as well as those coming up next year. On October 20, 1910, for example, cork-centered baseballs were used for the first time. Stick that in some trivia expert's pipe and have him smoke...
...unhappy to see the Saudi peace plan disappear, at least for a while, since it has added complications to already tense U.S.-Israeli relations and to dealings between the U.S. and Europe, which has given substantial support to the Saudi proposals. Says a State Department expert: "It's better to let it all cool...
Currently, some 250 books about cats are offered by publishers, but four cartoonists-not novelists, poets or pet-expert authors-dominate feline literature. Davis, whose books are compiled from daily comic strips running in 850 newspapers, is the most successful of the group. In fact, like superstrips Blondie, Peanuts and Beetle Bailey, Garfield is expected to appear in 1,000 newspapers by next spring. This is an amazing achievement-it has been only 3 years since the sly and always hungry feline burst full-grown from the head and hand of Davis. This hero is a cat who is both...
Hofstadter, a computer scientist, and his collaborator Daniel C. Dennett, a philosophy expert, avoid technical jargon and esoteric language throughout the book. Hofstadter is, or course, well practiced at writing for the layman; he authors a regular column in Scientific American and won a Pulitzer Prize for his book, Godel, EScher, and Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. Working with Hofstadter, Dennett--author of Branistorms:- Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology--expands on his own explanations of artificial intelligence, computers and the unity or divisibility of the soul...