Gary Larson
He created a world entirely populated by the lumpy, the big-nosed, the bespectacled, the bug-eyed and the foofy-haired. Welcome to "The Far Side."
Tuesday, Dec 21, 1999 5:00 PM UTCEntertainment
Susan McCarthy
Entertainment
Eating Satan's footprints
What can the onion and garlic diet do for you? Ask, rather, what you can do for Macedonia.
Friday, Oct 29, 1999 4:00 PM UTCLife Cancer, Health
Jane Goodall: The hopeful messenger
Like Hawking, Goodall has been elevated to the status of sage, but does knowledge of the wild beast really imply knowledge of the human heart and soul?
Wednesday, Oct 27, 1999 4:00 PM UTCEntertainment Religion, Africa
Can Viagra save the tigers?
Traditional Asian medicine practitioners have been at odds with conservationists for years. But that's starting to change.
Wednesday, Sep 22, 1999 4:00 PM UTCLife
Laugh track
Someday doctors might be replaced by Marx Brothers movies.
Wednesday, Sep 8, 1999 4:00 PM UTCLife
Voyage into the great unflossed
A dental-phobic writer takes a trip into the cavity we call the mouth.
Wednesday, Aug 18, 1999 4:00 PM UTCLife
Why we don't smell more
Our olfactory sense is highly developed and underused.
Wednesday, Jul 28, 1999 4:00 PM UTCLife
Spin doctoring
Expectations about your health or illness can cause reality to follow suit.
Thursday, Jul 15, 1999 4:00 PM UTCLife Medicine, Psychology
Don't worry, darling, I have giant fennel
The history and mystery of the plant that may have been one of the first contraceptives.
Thursday, Jul 1, 1999 4:00 PM UTCLife
Why do men have nipples?
Great thinkers, from Aristotle to Darwin, have pondered this question.
Tuesday, Jun 8, 1999 4:00 PM UTCLife Evolution, Charles Darwin
Must dog eat dog?
After preaching that humans live by animal laws of aggression and selfishness, evolutionary psychologists are finding the animal kingdom is not as brutal as they imagined.
Friday, May 21, 1999 4:00 PM UTCEntertainment Academia, College, Books
Name game
My friend named her kid after a dog. At least it's a good, solid name.
Monday, May 17, 1999 4:00 PM UTCLife France
As tears go by
Researchers collect tears, asking, "Why do we cry?"
Monday, May 17, 1999 4:00 PM UTCLife
Bark, growl, snort
These writers want to speak for the animals. Maybe that's because animals can't tell them to shut up.
Thursday, May 13, 1999 4:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books
Sauce biarnaise syndrome
Learned taste aversion may be nature's way of keeping us away from deadly foods.
Wednesday, Apr 28, 1999 4:00 PM UTCLife
The fabulous kingdom of gay animals
A biologist offers the first vision of a tantalizingly diverse natural world: not all animals are straight arrows.
Tuesday, Mar 16, 1999 7:41 PM UTCEntertainment Academia, LGBT, College, Books
The road to hell was paved with handbags
Tuesday, Mar 2, 1999 8:00 PM UTCLife
The worst trip ever
A sweaty cross-country trek in a 1937 Plymouth with two cranky siblings, a kangaroo rat in a box and a pogo stick turns into family legend.
Tuesday, Oct 20, 1998 5:16 PM UTCLife
Don't call me Mom
Why do people get all creeped out that my children call me by my first name?
Thursday, Jun 18, 1998 4:25 PM UTCLife
Can you hold? I've got sobbing on Line 2
Working from a home office means trying to keep your professional image intact while your kids yell, "You big sucky poophead!" in the background.
Tuesday, Apr 14, 1998 7:00 PM UTCLife
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