I never thought much about astrology until my first wife fell in love with a German named Nils. As our ailing marriage went terminal, I took to buying armloads of fashion magazines not for pretty pictures, which made me only more miserable, but for the horoscopes. I didn’t consider myself a believer; still, the stargazers […]

Brain drain, which is the action of having highly skilled and educated people leaving their country to work abroad, has become one of the developing countries concern. Brain drain is also referred to as human capital flight. More and more third world science and technology educated people are heading for more prosperous countries seeking higher […]

For twenty-two years Mark Melcher had walked from his drugstore to his house at exactly 5 o’clock.  Methodical Mark was. For twenty-two years he had been greeted respectfully along the way by men and women who had grown old with him. Dignified and kindly Mark was. “Wouldn’t hurt a fly,” as Bob Barstow, the sheriff, […]

Scientists recently revealed on instinct in women intact and unaffected by the age of technology. Glancing through glossy art books Lee Salks (Scientific American, May 1973) noticed that four times out of five Mary is holding the infant Jesus against her left breast. The Madonna sparked off a series of experiments and observations to determine […]