Personal and Otherwise — January 25, 2013, 11:00 am
Brautigan’s Heirs
A thwarted novelist???s tale
A thwarted novelist’s tale
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Personal and Otherwise — January 25, 2013, 11:00 am
A thwarted novelist???s tale
A thwarted novelist’s tale

Percentage by which the risk of type 2 diabetes increases for every two hours a day that a person watches television:

Two bottled ghosts—of an old man and a young girl—were sold at auction in New Zealand.

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