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Humor, James Thurber observed, "is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity." That at least seems to be the governing philosophy behind many of the cartoons in this year's collections. The best in this vein is Gahan Wilson's gently crafted Nuts (Marek; unpaginated; $4.95), chronicles of growing up. "You who remember how great it was to be a little kid, gang, don't remember how it was to be a little kid," warns Wilson, whose intrepid, chunky comic -strip hero survives a series of boyhood crises. Pilgrim's Regress, edited by Joel Wells (Thomas More Press...
ZEBRA by Clark Howard Marek; 405 pages...
This challenging theory holds that atherosclerosis results from infection by the ubiquitous herpes viruses. At Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, Microbiologist Catherine Fabricant and colleagues are working with a herpes virus that produces in chickens a variety of tumors known as Marek's disease. The scientists found that it also causes atherosclerotic lesions in heart arteries. But, intriguingly, virustree chickens do not develop heart disease even when fed a high cholesterol diet. Fabricant speculates that something similar may happen in humans as well...
...Marek Padavitz Tel Aviv
Star middle guard Al Marek says that if this year's intramural champs were spiced up with a couple of Restic's boys living in K-House, "we'd probably give Cornell...