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The dancing plant
Darwin was obsessed by it, although even he never trained his weedy Asian shrub to twitch its leaves to the sound of music. But in a small town in northern Thailand ...
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The indefatigable author talks about his new book on death, the war against terror, President Bush, FDR and Thomas Paine.
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The Wayne Gretzky of cricket spitting
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You don't need religion for life after death -- just $35,000 and a taste for liquid nitrogen.
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The bugs crawl in, the bugs crawl out
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