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browseamong the bright-jacketed novels,fresh off the presses,and old dog-eared volumes once lovingly fon-dled by an aging bibliophile.  \nHere are books from Shake-speare to Sandburg;Homer toHemingway to Hoffenstein.  \nHere are bphy,history,humor,biography,travel,mystery,adventure,short stories,long tales ...counsel and adviceon decorating the patio,growinghydrangeas,or collecting match-book covers and \"authorgrafs.\"  \nHere are books of entertain-ment,information,inspiration,self-lhelp...deliverance from thatpersistent old bugaboo,Boredom.  \nHere,too,are implements andmaterials of the writing trade:pen-cils,erasers,pens,inks,paste,mu-cilage,typewriters,tibbons,and pa-per—from the common scratchpad to the finest of engraved sta-tionery.  \nBut this is not all.The BookShop has also brought to its casesand counters and shelves manykindred items:office equipmentand supplies for other businessesalong the street called Sales,news-papers and magazines,art prints,greeting cards for every holidayand event on the calendar...anda lending library if you can't af-ford to own all of those booksyou'd like to read.And,who can?  \nScIENTISTS,during the past cen-tury,have lengthened the life ofman by several years.But anthro-pologists,digging in the cavesalong the Caspian Sea,havelengthened it by 25,000 years witha single turn of the spade.Herethey uncovered three skeletons ofhomo sapiens estimated to havelived 75,000 years ago.Previousestimate of the age of Neanderthalman was a mere 50,000 years.  \nCoLUMNISTs who simpcr andfawn over vacuous movies stars,hophead musicians,pornographicnovelists,and cheap politiciansseem to be trying to bask in alittle reflected notoriety for thingsthey'd like to do themselves...if they could get away with them.  \nMany characters ofstage,screen,and(now)government,\"have no character,are ignorant,vain,vulgar,self-centered,arro-gant,vindictive,dishonest,andjust plain stupid.The less saidabout them the better.  \nWhy not an occasional para-graph or 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