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  • Attractive

    Today is the date of that afternoon in April a year ago when I first saw the strange and attractive doll in the window of Abe Sheftel's toy shop on Third Avenue near Fifteenth Street, just around the corner from my office, where the plate on the door reads. Dr Samuel Amory. I remember just how it wa...
  • Important ways

    Trees are useful to man in three very important ways:they provide him wood and other products;they give him shade;and they help to prevent drought and floods. Unfortunately,in many parts of the world,man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important.In his eagerness to dra...
  • Immunologist

    We sometimes think humans are uniquely vulnerable to anxiety, but stress seems to affect the immune defenses of lower animals too. In one experiment, for example, behavioral immunologist Mark Laudenslager, at the University of Denver, gave mild electric shocks to 24 rats. Half the animals could swit...
  • business

      Most of us know about the Nobel Prize, especially the Nobel Peace Prize, but few of us know anything about the man who set them up. His name was Alfred Nobel. He was a great scientist and inventor himself. Besides, he had aOld School Runescape Gold big business. His business may surprise you. He m...