Many men today go to inordinate lengths to improve their appearance. Related Link First Chapter: 'Looking Good' By HOLLY BRUBACH LOOKING GOOD Male Body Image in Modern America. By Lynne Luciano. Illustrated. 259 pp. New York: Hill & Wang. $25. hat men are now sized up on the basis of their...
A plan for a livable city, the authors argue, involves the curtailing of sprawl. Related Link First Chapter: 'The Regional City' By SUZANNAH LESSARD THE REGIONAL CITY Planning for the End of Sprawl. By Peter Calthorpe and William Fulton. Illustrated. 304 pp. Washington: Island Press. Cloth, $55....
t's always discouraging to sit through a perfectly delightful wedding ceremony only to hear it culminate in the declaration, ''I now pronounce you man and wife.'' Man and wife? This ominous locution, which has survived barefoot weddings, Kahlil Gibran weddings, visibly-pregnant-bride weddings and...
Humans are obsessed with ranking species according to intelligence. By JAMES GORMAN CLEVER AS A FOX Animal Intelligence and What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves. By Sonja I. Yoerg. 228 pp. New York: Bloomsbury. $24.95. f Aesop were to...
In Ronald Hayman's book, Jung comes off as a monomaniacal narcissist. Related Links More on Carl Jung Dr. Carl G. Jung Is Dead at 85; Pioneer in Analytic Psychology (June 7, 1961) By EMILY NUSSBAUM A LIFE OF JUNG By Ronald Hayman....
The Darwinian struggle to reproduce doesn't end with copulation. By PAUL RAEBURN PROMISCUITY An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition. By Tim Birkhead. Illustrated. 272 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. $24.95. n the first nice day of spring, I sat outside reading The New York...
he announcement last week that Netscape Communications Corp. had agreed to license, at no charge, its Open Directory Web guide to a competitor, Lycos, left a lot of people in the industry scratching their heads. Related Article Alta Vista...
Is This the End of the Story for Books? No, Experts Say, but You'd Better Get Ready to E-Read By DINITIA SMITH irst the scroll, then the codex and the Gutenberg Bible. And now the electronic book? Almost nothing causes more anxiety in the publishing world than the idea that books as we know them...
arely does anything between covers astonish a librarian like Dennis Dillon, but he says he is shocked when he examines the latest reports about reading patterns of students at the University of Texas at Austin. Frank Curry for The New York Times Dennis Dillon, head of collections and information...
n some fronts, the battle for the Internet seems to have cooled. The fight between Netscape and Microsoft is in the hands of the courts. Microsoft's investment in Apple has temporarily imposed a truce in the hostilities between those two companies. And AOL seems to be getting along with everyone...