Bunny Allen, the last of a generation of professional hunters in East Africa who prided themselves on having as sharp an eye for their clients' wives as for their four-legged quarry, died at his home on the Indian Ocean island of Lamu last month, his family said.

Research suggests that adults live longer if they get six or seven hours of sleep a night rather than the accepted standard of eight hours.

"Some people get big just by walking by the barbells," Dr. Thompson said. "Others can lift weights a lot and their muscles don't grow much."

"You could marry a woman with a flawlessly even face," one doctor said, "and wind up with someone who four months later looked like a Shar-Pei." (NYT)

It is not a correct deduction from the Principles of Economics that enlightened self-interest always operates in the public interest. Nor is it true that self-interest generally is enlightened; more often individuals acting separately to promote their own ends are too ignorant or too weak to attain even these. Experience does not show that individuals, when they make up a social unit, are always less clearsighted than when they act separately.