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Photography — From the October 1997 issue
Wraparound — From the July 1973 issue
Cartoon — From the July 1968 issue
Article — From the October 1963 issue
Article — From the June 1957 issue
After hours — From the July 1955 issue
Article — From the May 1954 issue
Article — From the May 1954 issue
illustration — From the May 1954 issue
Article — From the March 1954 issue
Article — From the March 1954 issue
Article — From the September 1953 issue
Notebook on Black Africa (part III)
The easy chair — From the September 1953 issue
The easy chair — From the August 1953 issue

Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)

A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”

The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.