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...himself to the people--but never something quite this close to his heart. The Boston Legal star sold his kidney stone for $25,000 to raise money for the charity Habitat for Humanity. Captain Kirk's renal calculus was snapped up by online casino Goldenpalace.com which added the specimen to its collection of oddities, including a partially eaten sandwich thought to contain the image of the Virgin Mary. "This is a bold new addition to our fleet," said the casino's CEO, evidently a longtime Trekkie. Shatner says his stone is no mere lump of calcium. "If you subjected...
...Thus, I have compiled a typology of the three main categories of metrosexuality at work (or, one might argue, “working it”) on the Harvard campus. They are listed below, with accompanying HAP-Q (Heterosexual/Availability Probability Quotient) ratings out of 1000:The Classic Metrosexual: This specimen is one of the easiest metrosexuals to identify. He is often swathed in Banana Republic sweaters and ever-so-tight trousers. Often, these men look vaguely European, and sometimes drink extremely small cups of coffee that are doubtless incredibly strong. Possibly his hair is highlighted. HAP-Q: 532.8 (Heterosexual...
...It’s been said that the Isis is merely an exceptionally poor specimen of an elite, punch-based organization. We’ll never know, but let’s hope that scrawled in other, more prestigious clubs’ punch books is not more of the same mindless criteria, not a self-indictment like the Isis’ giddy prose has provided...
Despite the plot's implausibilities, Sskind's fable proves effective in several ways. Born half a century before the French Revolution, Grenouille is a foretaste of modern man as monstrous solipsist or, as a contemporary describes him, an "entirely new specimen of the race." The novel's emphasis on the sense of smell is disquieting, given the deodorizing proclivities of modern life: "The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it." And those readers who feel...
...contemporary mystery story about urban terrorism. And then, in another sharp turn, the third part takes us to a future Manhattan populated by lifelike androids and lizard-like aliens, refugees from another planet. (That section also features Cunningham's first-ever car chase.) What holds the disparate components of Specimen Days together is Cunningham's intense focus on New York City as a crucible in which we're forced to confront the radically foreign-even alien-realities of death, technology, urban life and each other. Whitman could embrace those realities-this is the guy who wrote, "I am large...