For many youths, magical feats represent one of the most intriguing possibilities of Eastern disciplines. They offer the hope of beating science at its own game, on its own territory. The self-cure of cancer is such a case: how satisfying it would be to disenthrone all the oncologists in a single blow!

For the first time, finocchio, or Florence fennel, has performed for me as it should and has swollen out into bulbous protrusions at the base of its leaf stalks.

Firefighters have to put themselves in serious danger in order to save lives. It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it.

Well, we have seen this kind of phenomenon before, and the long-suffering reader will now be expecting a chapterful of negative results on the finite base property for relation-type algebras.