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...analysis of middens is emerging as a distinct scientific specialty. Its handful of practitioners have already published a 472-page tome on the subject (Packrat Middens; University of Arizona) and have considered naming the ! specialty paleonidology, which roughly translated means "study of old nests...
...Miss., would not let him hitchhike to the New York World's Fair in 1939. He has collected a stack of material-postcards, folders and samples-on world's fairs dating back to the first one in London's Crystal Palace in 1851. Another of his packrat collections of oddities inspired his recent book, The Best Remaining Seats (TIME, Dec. 8, 1961). a recall of the gilded movie palaces of the 1920s...
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