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...brain. The navel has traditionally been considered an important body part, central in more than just a physical sense. The ancient Greeks considered Delphi the omphalos, the navel and sprirtual center of the world, and 1950's television censors decreed that Barbara Eden's bellybutton could not peek out of her harem out fit on the otherwise ground-breaking show I Dream of Jeannie. But it's not the navel as a historical concept or source of titillation that has been occupying the dusty corners of my fevered brain, haunting my dreams and every waking moment. There's a specific...
...that this so-called therapeutic-vaccine approach may be the wrong way to go. They found that even during the early stages of infection, the immune system is already working hard, and a vaccination probably would not provide a boost. In light of his own research and an early peek at Salk's data, Ho believes "there is absolutely no evidence that the vaccine did any good...
Museums: A peek at the secret treasures of the Hermitage...
...Such a peek was given last week by Mikhail Piotrovsky, since 1992 director of Russia's greatest art institution, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. While on a trip to the U.S., planning to set up an international funding body for his beleaguered museum, Piotrovsky disclosed that some 700 paintings and 2,000 archaeological objects looted from Germany, many from private collections, have been kept in storage in the Hermitage basements since 1945. Their existence was a state secret, and Piotrovsky himself did not see any of them until 1992. Piotrovsky plans to put 70 of the paintings...
...every now and then, I took a peek at the game...