Easy chair — From the February 2012 issue
Act of contrition
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Easy chair — From the February 2012 issue
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Notebook — From the September 1999 issue
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Notes on sex, Americans, scandal, and morality
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Editor's drawer — From the February 1862 issue
Amount British Nuclear Fuels paid the British Scouts last year to add its logo to their scientist badge:
Roughly 80 percent of U.S. cocaine was thought to be contaminated with a drug that causes skin tissues to rot.
Ohio was judged to be the most profane state.
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”
