New books — From the July 2005 issue
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New books — From the July 2005 issue
New books — From the April 2003 issue
Article — From the October 1993 issue
A journey through south China, land of capitalist miracles, where yesterday’s rice paddy becomes tomorrow’s metropolis, and a thousand factories bloom
Books in brief — From the September 1977 issue
illustration — From the October 1976 issue
illustration — From the October 1976 issue
Article — From the March 1976 issue
Books in brief — From the May 1967 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.
