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...Leakey, wangled a grant and packed the young lady off to chase chimps. At first she could not get within 500 yards of her subjects. Real discoveries started, however, when a bold chimp she called David Graybeard strolled into her camp one day and began chewing on a palm nut. Lured by bananas, his friends followed. Jane in turn followed the band on its jungle journeys-sometimes, despite scary scrapes with leopards, she even stayed with them all night-and gathered impressive evidence that the chimpanzee has a far more complex life-style than anybody had supposed...
Although some of his bemused colleagues jovially accused him of being a "numbers nut," Dutka is convinced that his 200 pages of tightly spaced computer printout, each containing 5,000 digits, has some practical value. The square root of 2 is what mathematicians call an irrational number, one that runs maddeningly on without any repetitive patterns or predictable sequence no matter how far it is carried out. Such numbers are also apparently completely random,* an important quality to mathematicians, who have contrived lengthy random numbers for use in computer studies of such chance phenomena as incidence of telephone usage, highway...
Hevern started at center as a freshman. As a sophomore, he played on the "nut squads" which go in on kick-offs and punts...
Some Kind of Nut. Why, he ruminates, did his physician-father have him circumcised? "Did this represent an unconscious attack by my father on my Oedipus complex? Was he aware of the future decreased pleasure the operation would incur, and did this represent hatred of me? Did he, with my mother's consent, subconsciously want me castrated?" Philosophically, Harnes concludes that "what was done was done." Anyway, he notes, neither plastic surgery nor prosthetic technology can alter matters where he is concerned...
...consists mostly of women and a few men with "certain psychological problems." Harnes claims to have sent questionnaires to 135 urologists explaining the nature of his research and asking for their cooperation. Only 29 replied at all, and of this number, 24 asked: "What are you, some kind of nut or something...