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Is this the perfect news story or what?

It's too bad the word "jam" was ever invented, much less the concept it implies being attached to music.

"A multi-institutional consortium including Duke University has created startlingly crisp 3-D microscopic views of tiny mouse brains—unveiled layer by layer—by extending the capabilities of conventional magnetic resonance imaging."

Harry Patch, the last survivor of Passchendaele, did something 500,000 of his mates didn't: He survived the three months of carnage. He's the last WWI Tommy.

On the eve of the release of <I>The Simpsons</I> movie, Ian Jones explains when and why the TV show began to suck (he says it was in season 9, 1997). Will the movie reflect the glory of the first eight seasons or will it disappoint? The trailers have not embiggened my enthusiasm.

I loved Doug Marlette. His political cartoons were so sharp that I almost always laughed out loud&mdash;even when he slaughtered some of my sacred cows. I suppose that's one of the signs of really good political humor, since all of us can laugh at the other side's foibles.

It was a fascinating place&mdash;but it was <I>his</I>. Other than comic books, a Hitchcock film is the only place where it makes sense for a wrongfully accused man to have to catch the real villian. Yet, the plots were never the point, were they?

Some music really does suck&mdash;um, create a differential affect gap.

<I>The New York Times</I> has a dating column? The things you miss if you don't buy the Sunday Getting & Having edition.