May 17, 2004

» Now will you stop going on at me about this?

Lottery winners, trust-fund babies and others who get their money without working for it do not get as much satisfaction from their cash as those who earn it, a study of the pleasure center in people's brains suggests.

» The truth about Achilles

Legend has it that our hero met Troilus, the nineteen-year-old son of King Priam, on the battlefield, and the insatiable Achilles, as he beheld the youngster grappling manfully, was overcome with Greek lust. As their thrusting swords met in furious clanks, the mighty Achilles, with his war-skirt tenting about his heroic loins, yelled: "I will kill you unless you yield to my caresses!"