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Tarzans through Time

A Brief History of Former Ape Men by Beth Rowen Johnny Weissmuller, perhaps the silver screen's most famous Tarzan, sweeps Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) off her feet.While nearly 20 beefcake…

Come to Our Census

Census 2000 is almost upon us — the questionnaire is shorter, but will it be more accurate? by Damon Goldsmith Enumeration versus Statistical Sampling The Supreme Court ruled in March 1999 that…

kosher

(Encyclopedia) kosher [Heb.,=proper, i.e., fit for use], in Judaism, term used in rabbinic literature to mean what is ritually correct, but most widely applied to food that is in accordance with…

Better Living through Circuitry

Director:Jon ReissWriters:Jon Reiss, Stuart Swezey, Brian McNelisSeventh Art Releasing; NR; 92 minutesRelease:6/00With:Genesis P'Orridge, Scanner, Roni Size History is hidden. Every cultural…

Morton, Rosalie Slaughter

(Encyclopedia) Morton, Rosalie Slaughter, 1876–1955, American surgeon, b. Lynchburg, Va., M.D. Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1897. She was the first woman faculty member of both the New…

The Hungry Stones: The Home-Coming

by Rabindranath Tagore Once There Was a KingMy Lord, the BabyThe Home-Coming Phatik Chakravorti was ringleader among the boys of the village. A new mischief got into his head. There…

Peter Pan: Peter Breaks Through

The Shadow Peter Breaks Through All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was…

Block, Adriaen

(Encyclopedia) Block, Adriaen, fl. 1610–24, Dutch navigator. Eager to establish a fur trade with the Native Americans, Amsterdam merchants sent (1613) Block and another Dutch navigator to explore the…

The Physician Comes

The Physician ComesSolus AdestMeditationJohn Donne AS sickness is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sickness is solitude; when the infectiousness of the disease deters them who…

The Second Coming

The Second ComingTurning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-…