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...literary scene. Based in Normal, Illinois, the nonprofit publishing house has been unearthing lost treasures for two decades. Founded by American critic John O'Brien, the Dalkey Archive takes its name from a 1964 novel of that title by the late, hard-drinking Irish writer Flann O'Brien (no kin), one of the firm's early reprints. The surviving O'Brien and his team have since uncovered more than 300 new and out-of-print literary classics...
Just as we now refer to “War and Peace” and “Great Expectations” as “serial novels,” so, too, will we categorize “The Sopranos” and some of its lesser kin as “tele-epics...
...Long-Lost Kin While the endangered GOLDEN-MANTLED TREE KANGAROO is known to exist on a single mountain in neighboring Papua New Guinea, this was the first time it had been found in Indonesia. The explorers say the Indonesian population could prove critical to the survival of the species...
HALLUCINOGENS Things are trickier when it comes to LSD and its hallucinogenic kin, but reports suggest that most '60s trips ended relatively benignly. The most rigorous studies of hallucinogens have been conducted not on boomers, who used the drugs intermittently and furtively, but on Native American populations for whom consumption of the hallucinogen peyote is part of their cultural and religious fabric. In November researchers from the McLean psychiatric hospital outside Boston released a five-year study that found no cognitive or psychological problems among Native American regular users, some of whom even performed better on psychological tests than those...
...Jordanian sources tell TIME, she was arrested Sunday morning in the historic city of Salt, after fleeing the Radisson SAS hotel and making her escape by taxi. The sources say that she headed for the western Jordanian city, known for its radical Islamists, in search of shelter with the kin of her sister, whose Jordanian husband-an al-Qaeda explosives expert-was killed in a U.S. strike on the Iraqi city of Falluja in 2004. Bad move: The Jordanian sources say a member of the clan snitched, alerting police to her whereabouts...