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How kava came to market is part of what makes its story so interesting. The Western world has known about kava's powers since the 18th century, when Captain Cook spotted Polynesians chewing its roots. But it didn't catch on in the U.S. until 1996, when a group of...
Zubaydah's fingerprints appear on most of al-Qaeda's terrorist plots?some successful, most not?during the past few years. While bin Laden and his No. 2, the Egyptian physician Ayman al-Zawahiri, hid out in Afghanistan, Zubaydah was one of al-Qaeda's most traveled leaders, employing at...
In an email, Hauser’s fellow Science B-29 Professor Richard W. Wrangham contributed the adaptationist’s point of view. Citing his own research on genital masculinization in spotted hyenas, Wrangham explained that the hypothesis long trumpeted by Gould, which claims that the hyena�...
DIED. WILLIAM CHOLL, 81, designer of the ubiquitous wooden sandal that, in the 1970s, enjoyed U.S. sales of $30 million a year; on the Isle of Man, Britain. Son of a founder of the Dr. Scholl's company, he spotted the sandal in Germany, reshaped it to flex the arch...
Bill Clinton is making himself a fixture on Manhattan's publishing scene. And why not? Knopf is paying Clinton more than $10 million for the rights to his autobiography, due next year. It is believed to be the biggest nonfiction deal of all time. A few weeks ago, we spotted...