Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everglades "river" from its headwaters in Lake Okeechobee, but also have first claim on the area's water resources. When water is short, little if any is now left over for the wilderness. Immune for centuries to permanent damage from natural disaster, the great park, a constant wonder to nearly 1,000,000 visitors a year, may be destroyed...
Mailer looks the heavy but more characteristically acts the role of the nation's thumb-wrestling champ. He used to hold the world title too, he says, but he was whipped one night by a Mexican bullfighter who had learned the sport that day. "I wonder," Mailer muses, looking off into the distance, "if he realized what he won." Because thumb-wrestling is not just a diversion for Mailer--he gives himself to it as totally as he does to his writing, his family, and his friends. "Norman is great at thumb-wrestling," says an old friend, "because...
...surmise of the 16th century explorer Jacques Cartier, who sighted Labrador and declared: "This must be the land that God gave Cain." Voltaire dismissed Canada as "a few acres of snow." Canada's massive, historical inferiority complex is without question the biggest in the Western world, a longstanding wonder and delight to analysts of various national psyches. If the U.S. worries about not being liked abroad, Canada worries about not liking itself at home. Hugh MacLennan, one of the country's best-known novelists, writes wryly: "If it be true that God turns his back on a people...
When all-girl Vassar announced last winter that it was exploring an affiliation with male Yale (TIME, Dec. 30), the college was far from taking a revolutionary or original step. All across the nation, separate-sex schools are rapidly going coed, and some educators wonder whether colleges that do not go along with the trend will survive at all. "Nowhere in the world," insists Vassar President Alan Simpson, "is anyone really making a powerful argument for separate education any more." Kenyon College President Franze Edward Lund agrees that separate education "is an anachronism in an age that admits less...
Until 1963, dimethyl sulfoxide was just another liquid solvent used in industry. Then University of Oregon researchers reported that DMSO had varied medicinal properties-that, in fact, it was a wonder drug. Daubed on the skin, they said, it soothed not only the superficial pain of burns, but also the deep pain of crippling rheumatoid arthritis. It helped burns and wounds to heal faster; it eased itching-and cured athlete's foot...