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...recognition as the world's oldest profession. Ever since humankind became literate, civilization has been bedeviled by the forger's determination to deceive by mimicking the writing of others. When a pharaoh first fashioned a seal to protect the identity of his scribblings, a forger lurked with intent to melt, alter and reseal. Around the 5th century B.C. the Athenian poet Onomakritos was expelled from that ancient city for tampering with the oracles of Musaeus. His crime, unlike those of most forgers, had an unintended benefit. Thereafter, whenever a prophecy failed to materialize, the oracle could angrily proclaim that...
Throughout the West, reservoirs are full, rivers are bursting their banks, and the earth, loosened by constant downpours and melting snow, menaces highways and towns. In the mountainous parts of California, unusually heavy snowfalls, now beginning to melt, have raised the specter of unprecedented spring flooding. "The snow in the mountains is 200% above normal," observes Dean Coffey, manager of the San Francisco Hetch Hetchy Water and Power System. "I don't see how we can get away from flooding...
...does have psychological power. A man places the thing just on top of his brain, and the one takes emanations from the other. The ancient Egyptians would go to parties in an ornamental cone of perfumed wax. The wax would melt down onto the wearer as the party heated up. The hat responded to the brain's temperature. A hat can be revealing, intimate. It can also be dangerous: no other article of clothing has the potential to make a man look so ridiculous. There is the terror of the whisper: Why does he wear that silly little...
...Boyum were extended to five game contests--the Crimson qualified all six of its competitors for semifinal play. A Harvard player won each division, and the Crimson finished 14 1/2 points ahead of a second-place Tiger team, bringing so much metal back to Cambridge that "we could melt them down and be rich," according to John Dinneen. Boyum, Jernigan and Jackson were also named to the 10-man All-American squad, while Lubowitz and Co-Captain Geordie Lemmon made the second team...
...House in the dispute, warned that Gorsuch is on much shakier ground now. "We're not going to take some peekaboo deal," he said. How much more heat is the Ice Queen prepared to take? Said she, with a sweet smile: "Lots of it. I don't melt at the first macho scream, and I'm not melting...