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...book represents the culmination of a series of interviews Mack conducted with people who claim to have been abducted by aliens, taken aboard space-ships, and forced to engage in sexual activity with their captors. A farout delusion, right? No, says Mack. He argues that the abduction experience cannot be captured by our limited imagination that sees objective and subjective, or real and unreal as eternally opposite categories...
...York has Greenwich Village for weird, farout movies and revivals, Cambridge has the Orson Welles, and Harvard has, well, its house film societies. From Mather House to North House, the popcorn flows and the movie shows almost every weekend night...
...time of conception. There is evidence, said Hydén, that the DNA in an old animal differs from that in a young one-and the same is true, presumably, in man. Here, Hydén opened the door a chink for a glimpse into an admittedly farout future. If a reasonably pure extract of brain DNA is injected into some animals, he said, their protein synthesis doubles within an hour. But he was careful to insist: "This does not mean that an elixir of life has been found." Hard facts remaining to be determined, he said, are whether this...
...Republicans do not have a present President to carry their campaign flag. But they do have a past President who ranks among history's great crowd pleasers-and last week ex-President Eisen hower was wowing them around the land with his denunciations of "the new-farout-frontier...
Archaeology once appeared to be the domain of science fictioneers. The digger merely seemed to exercise his imagination in reverse. Instead of forecasting the farout future, he re-created the long-lost past. From a few hunks of bones he built dinosaurs. In the ashes of ancient camp fires he saw the life story of extinct societies. He re-created primitive artifacts from the flimsiest shards. Today, says...
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