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...book, The Sneetches, and Other Stories among the books she's loved before. Professor Gould, after telling us how he played stickball as a street-kid in New York City, includes Lucky to Be a Yankee by Joe DiMaggio on his list of great books, following Darwin's The Origin of Species...
Besides, one and a half hours isn't a lot of time to cover an entire academic subject, says Rotch Professor of Atmospheric Science Michael B. McElroy. "We're try to cover the origin of life, new evolutionary theory and the more recent meterological past of the earth. To do the entire earth and life in an hour and a half is quite a feat...
That is the intriguing, though debatable, conclusion of a study that Democratic campaigners are seizing as ammunition for the approaching 1986 elections. The study is partisan in origin: it was produced by the Democratic staff members of Congress's Joint Economic Committee. But at a time when the growth of the nation's deficit-ridden economy has slowed to a barely perceptible crawl, and when new uncertainties have been raised by the sweeping tax reform that is likely to become law, the study highlights some eye- catching trends in jobs and incomes...
...garments have as firm a claim on the title of fashion classic as the polo shirt, or, as Ralph Lauren calls it, the Polo shirt. The exact origin of the knitted-cotton, soft-collar shirt with a floppy tail is unknown, but its widely recorded debut came in 1893, when it was worn by polo players at the swank Hurlingham Club, near Buenos Aires. Compared with traditional British polo wear of the era, the new tops were cooler and less restrictive. In 1920 one of Argentina's polo stars, Lewis Lacey, opened a sports shop in Buenos Aires, where...
...much more. The ancient ship, whose origin Bass has not disclosed, was crammed with bronze, tin, glass, gold, quartz, weapons and dozens of amphoras (pottery jugs) containing goods ranging from frankincense to fruit seeds. "It was like a floating supermarket," says Yasar Yildiz, the deputy director of Turkey's Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology, which is giving vital support to the INA expedition. "This wreck is more than we could hope for," says Archaeologist Cemal Pulak, Bass's assistant. "It is giving us all % kinds of new information about people's lives in this area in 1400 B.C., what goods...