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Page 6, The Shores
Book Review

FUZZ: When Nature Breaks The titles of her earlier against caterpillars. The
local specimens, went
books are evidence of that:
The Law Gulp: Adventures on the the complaint, were
Alimentary Canal; Bonk: trespassing and pilfering
By Nils A. Shapiro The Curious Coupling of from people’s gardens
Author Mary Roach’s books invariably climb the Science and Sex; Grunt: and orchards. A summons
national bestseller lists. She has earned among her vast fan The Curious Science of was issued and five copies
base a reputation as “our most consistently entertaining,” Humans at War; Spook; made and nailed to trees
and “disturbingly funny journalist” with an “infectious Science Tackles the in forests adjacent to each
awe for quirky science.” Afterlife; Stiff: The Curious town. The caterpillars
Lives of Human Cadavers were ordered to appear
and Packing For Mars: The
in court on the twenty-
Three Step Plan Curious Science of Life in the Void. eight of June, at a
specified hour, where they
Her latest work attracted me because of its subject matter:
For College a round-the-world investigation into the wildly diverse – would be assigned legal
but ultimately fascinating – ways in which we humans
representation.
“Of course, no caterpillars appeared at the appointed
attempt to solve the problems we face when the world’s
other creatures and natural forces either don’t understand time, but the case went forward anyway. In a surviving
By Jim Forgan, Ph.D. the rules we have set … or seemingly refuse to follow them. document, the court recognizes the rights of caterpillars
Licensed School As the author travels the globe in search of each area’s to live freely and happily, provided this does not ‘impair
Psychologist problems – working closely with wildlife scientists, the happiness of man…’ The judge decreed that the
Planning for college researchers and other experts whose insightful findings caterpillars be assigned a plot of land for their sustenance
does not have to wait until she passes along to us – she describes local efforts to and enjoyment. By the time the details were worked out,
the senior year. Students solve their dilemmas. It is here, in situations that local the defendants, having pupated (to butterflies), were
obtain better outcomes communities often consider even dire, that Roach’s sense surely through with their devastations, and all parties
when college planning of humor shines through on so many of these pages. left the proceedings satisfied.”
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A rising junior student described on the very first page of this book’s Introduction: easily, however. As we soon learn in the book’s 15 chapters,
I recently worked with “On June 26, 1659, a representative from five towns
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