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French Leave
In his final column, James Burke discusses matters bucolic, adulterous, explosive, decorative, passionate and (fittingly) fugitive
Stories by James Burke
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Home from Home
James Burke employs body snatching, mastodons, Great White Explorers, journalism, war, raincoats and malaria to literary ends
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Not Nelson's Obelisk
James Burke draws monumental conclusions from wax, dinner sets, greenhouses, Argentina, prisons and the king of beasts
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Getting High
Booze, dope, metaphysics and other rhapsodic matters¿
James Burke airs a few Renaissance thoughts
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Not What It Seems
James Burke explores crystals, sheepish matters, monster chicks,
poets and other smoke-and-mirrors stuff
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All at Sea
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum¿buried treasure and pirates, novelists and politics¿James Burke tours life on the high seas
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What a Nerve
From Beethoven and Dickens to the chemistry of urine to "siderism"--not all science ends with a Nobel, notes James Burke
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Water Music
In which we visit singers, fiddlers, fertilizers and health freaks and, James Burke observes, it all goes down the drain
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Wuff, Wuff
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Movers and Shakers
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On the Ball
Environment
The O Zone
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Various, Unrequited
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A Matter of Degrees
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Or Maybe Not
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Sound Ideas
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Room with (Half) a View
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Entente Cordiale
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CONNECTIONS
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