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...their part in the inter-town rivalry. “You just don’t get it,” my brother is wont to say of high school. “You never got it.” And looking at the feather boa on his pillow, I knew he was right...
Many people believe that cats are so biologically programmed for survival in the wilderness that they cannot be trained. Asleep, a cat may resemble a throw pillow or a Kliban-style meatloaf, but, awake and hungry, the average feline, one of the most highly evolved predators in the natural world, is capable of dispatching a dozen mice at a brief sitting. Alarmingly, it tends to dawdle before administering the coup de grace. Behavioralists believe this happens because cats are programmed by a primitive, vestigial stalking mechanism. Cats toy with their prey because they may be teaching kittens to hunt...
Galway, Ireland—At 8 a.m. a few Sundays ago, I heard a knock on my door. Having hit the pillow at 4 a.m. after clubbing in town, I moaned, turned over and tried to ignore the fact that it was time to get up. I heard the steady sound of rain on the window—something I hear nearly ever morning here...
...large inspirations behind my choice of Ireland was the poetic and literary tradition; another was the mythology. I keep Yeats; The Poems next to my pillow and have a Field Guide to Irish Faeries on my shelf. This does not make much sense to most of my fellow Americans abroad—all hardworking, motivated students—who came here for the Guinness and to reconnect with their Irish roots...
...anyone within earshot. But what can you do? To find out, researchers at Wilford Hall U.S.A.F. Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, recruited 40 volunteers and tested three over-the-counter remedies: Snorenz (a lubricating spray), Breathe Right Strips (to enlarge nostrils) and the Snore-No-More (an ergonomic pillow). None of them worked...