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Bacteria normally multiply by sexless fission-they simply split in two. Still, scientists believe that some kinds of bacteria occasionally manage a kind of sexual mating. It is almost impossible to catch them in the act, though, because they have no special sex organs, and often when they cling together it is not for love. But at least one kind of microscopic bug has a sex life with a difference. Professors Pavel Nemec and Vojtech Bystricky of the Slovak Polytechnical University in Bratislava report that the Caulobacter, a harmless bacterium found in soil, possesses a multi-purpose organ that...
...great majority of Harvard men and women must see the indisputable advantages of comradeship in intellect. No more will they shy away from the dank, depressing, surrealistically bleak landscape of Lamont (and Radcliffe Library in its sexless hours). No more will they set up shop to study, only to fall asleep with stunning promptitude...
...Sexless Harem. Then one unfortunate day, Owen has an impulse toward candor and tells his mistress he has a wife and his wife he has a mistress. Neither seems particularly surprised, for, as Sybil puts it, Owen has always been "a bit of a liar." Sybil goes dutifully up to London for the great confrontation scene. Finding Alex feverishly ill, she hustles the girl down to Oxfordshire to convalesce under Owen's roof. Nights, wife and mistress sit contentedly together doing jigsaw puzzles; occasionally they dissolve into helpless laughter at the thought of Owen's predicament. The poor...
Your Oct. 4 story is calumniatory to the Yellowstone bear. We suspect the Russian bear is toothless, clawless, sexless and brainwashed into its anthropomorphic antics. Yellowstone unregimented bears gather along the roadside midsummer time to enjoy the free performance of nearly two million park visitors, biting very few considering the expanse of toothsome human epidermis proffered daily. Our bears are indignant at your slander...
...never married. But in 1917, when she was 36 and had written eight novels whose leading characters had a somewhat sexless quality and a tendency to first names that were appropriate to either man or woman. Rose Macaulay fell in love with a married man. Their affair continued some 20 years, until his death; but only her immediate family and a few intimate friends knew of it until the publication of these letters...