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...reader has become enmeshed in the travails of a fabulously rich Israeli named Meyer Alinsky who, it turns out, has all along had his own special uses for poor Murphy. Alinsky's Diamond is not so much a case of an overcomplicated plot, in fact, as a whole flea market full of story lines...
CRAFTS, ONCE RELEGATED to roadside trading posts and flea markets, are slowly gaining legitimacy as art forms. Whether heralded as a new renaissance in populist art or condemned as regression, the surge in craft as art is a reality, and has invaded Harvard at Hilles Library in the form of a pottery exhibit, "Fire and Clay...
...Asked For it: A performance by a trained flea, all because YOU ASKED FOR IT! Right. Ch. 5, 7 p.m., 1/2 hour...
...prodigious jumping power of the flea [Dec. 3] seems to be one of those mysteries that has forever tantalized the mind of man. Aristophanes' comedy The Clouds (423 B.C.) shows Socrates and his students carrying on experiments to determine how many times the length of its own foot a flea can jump...
...flea prepares to jump, it crouches like a runner in the starting block, lowering it's head and contracting its body. Thes actions compress the resilin and engage hooklike "catches" in the flea's exoskeleton that prevent the resilin from expanding prematurely. In effect, the flea has "cocked" itself for the leap. Then, at the right moment, it releases the catches. The resilin snaps back to its original size, like an uncoiling spring, and exerts a sharp downward force on tendons connected to the upper part of the hind legs. That launches the flea into...