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Readings — From the February 2004 issue
Readings — From the September 2000 issue
Books — From the December 1977 issue
Commentary — From the May 1974 issue
Review — From the February 1962 issue
Article — From the October 1951 issue
Editor's drawer — From the September 1920 issue
Editor's drawer — From the December 1913 issue
Editor's drawer — From the March 1907 issue
Editor's drawer — From the October 1897 issue
Editor's drawer — From the April 1895 issue
Literary notes — From the February 1887 issue
Editor's drawer — From the July 1882 issue
Editor's drawer — From the February 1862 issue
Editor's drawer — From the February 1862 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.
