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When the Kansas Board of Education voted recently to eliminate evolution from the state science curriculum, the sophisticates had quite a yuk. One editorial cartoon had an ape reclining in a tree telling his mate, "We are descended from the Kansas School Board." The decision has been widely derided as a sign of resurgent Middle American obscurantism, a throwback to the Scopes "monkey trial...
...wing insects called Xenos peckii live inside common paper wasps, feeding on their hosts' innards. Sightless and flightless, these tiny parasites exist only to be impregnated. The luckier males mature inside the wasps, emerge at adulthood and fly away, using their olfactory sense and their eyes to find and mate with a female inside another wasp...
...approach by plugging late 20th century cultural attitudes into a spacious 19th century literary vehicle. Like Una Spencer, Eliza Sommers makes her way in the world by cross-dressing. She befriends a Chinese healer who becomes her confidant, her partner in an alternative-medicine practice and eventually her soul mate for life. Throughout it all, Allende projects a woman's point of view with confidence, control and an expansive definition of romance as a fact of life. In this book and Sobel's, history is not only revised but also enthusiastically refurnished...
More and more nations are establishing marine reserves, where sea creatures of all sorts and sizes can mate and bear their young free from the menace of man. Just as important, funds are being found for enforcement of limits, restrictions and bans. Personnel are being hired and trained; boats and planes are being deployed to monitor compliance...
Time for a cigarette break, mate," says Russell Crowe, settling down with a pack of Benson & Hedges Milds to talk about his role in The Insider. Wait a minute. A cigarette break? Isn't Crowe playing Jeffrey Wigand, the tobacco-industry executive who blew the whistle on his bosses, helped spark a billion-dollar court battle, and now teaches the evils of cigarettes to kids? Crowe smiles apologetically. "I love irony, lovey," he says in his Aussie accent and lights up another cigarette...