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DIED. ROBERT LUDLUM, 73, prolific author whose convoluted cold war espionage tales sold more than 290 million copies worldwide and whose preposterous yet compelling plots helped define the genre of airport fiction; in Naples, Florida. After working as an actor and theater producer for 20 years, Ludlum turned his hand...
The flash point of the crisis is real estate, which is ironic when you consider the antimaterialistic attitudes of the people who drifted west in the '60s and '70s and helped shape the character of the city for the past four decades. For many of us, buying a house was...
But Mir's history is more than these accomplishments; it is also a quietly told collection of decidedly unheroic tales--tales of ordinary people living and working in the most extraordinary of places. Only now, as Mir flies its valedictory laps, are many of those stories beginning to come out...
mates--similar to the decorative tales of male peacocks.
In this gem, the scientist and noted essayist trains a wry wit and a highly perceptive eye on his two-plus decades of observing baboon behavior in Kenya. Sidesplitting vignettes about monkey politics alternate with equally hilarious tales of misadventure on the backroads of East and Central Africa. Sciencephobes needn...