WHY SIZE MATTERS From Bacteria to Blue Whales By John Tyler Bonner Princeton Univ. 161 pp. $16.95 SIZE MATTERS How Height Affects the Health, Happiness, and Success of Boys -- and the Men They Become By Stephen S. Hall Houghton Mifflin. 388 pp. $26 One of the most memorable passages in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels comes when the sojourner Lemuel Gulliver encounters a bevy of Brobdingnagian maidens disrobing. Far from the delightful voyeuristic experience Gulliver might have hoped for, he sees naked giantesses, 12 times human size, as if through a powerful magnifying glass: "Their skins appeared so coarse and uneven, so variously colored when I saw them near, with a Mole here and there as broad as a Trencher, and Hairs hanging from it thicker than Pack-threads, to say nothing further concerning the rest of their persons." ... -
Super-Size Me
WHY SIZE MATTERS From Bacteria to Blue Whales By John Tyler Bonner Princeton Univ. 161 pp. $16.95 SIZE MATTERS How Height Affects the Health, Happiness, and Success of Boys -- and the Men They Become By Stephen S. Hall Houghton Mifflin. 388 pp. $26 One of the most memorable passages in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels comes when the sojourner Lemuel Gulliver encounters a bevy of Brobdingnagian maidens disrobing. Far from the delightful voyeuristic experience Gulliver might have hoped for, he sees naked giantesses, 12 times human size, as if through a powerful magnifying glass: "Their skins appeared so coarse and uneven, so variously colored when I saw them near, with a Mole here and there as broad as a Trencher, and Hairs hanging from it thicker than Pack-threads, to say nothing further concerning the rest of their persons." ...-
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