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America's Oldest school...
John and Susan Purcell toured Yellowstone this winter the new, noisy way--by snowmobile. And like thousands of visitors who clamber onto winter scooters every week to explore America's oldest national park, they can't get over those close encounters with wild elk, moose, trumpeter swans, coyotes and, closest of all, buffalo. The huge, hairy beasts--some weighing as much as a Volkswagen--ambled right down the middle of the road, often forcing drivers to hit their brakes to avoid a meaty collision. "We got within 5 ft. of them!" says an excited John Purcell. "I've never seen...
...response would be to the kind of gift that was recently offered to, and then rejected by, Oxford University. The dons of Oxford refused to accept $34 million presented by Saudi billionaire Wafic Said for the founding of a new business school. I guess when you're the oldest university in the English-speaking world, you can get away with such ingratitude...
...mildly attractive women? Where but the Pudding can you understand the cultural significance of Howard Stern's promoting his new movie on David Letterman wearing a blond wig and nylons? Where else but the Pudding, a Harvard institution by dint of being an institution and the nation's oldest the atrical company? Eat well (for the Hasty Pudding recipe, check out Lydia Maria Child's The Frugal Housewife, 1832), drink liberally and enjoy the show...
...genetically prone to high self-esteem, everyone's self-esteem depends heavily on social feedback. Genes even mold personality to our place in the family environment, according to Frank Sulloway, author of Born to Rebel, the much discussed book on birth order. Parents who clone their obedient oldest child may be dismayed to find that the resulting twin, now lower in the family hierarchy, grows up to be Che Guevara...