Leavings

But think of this, for what it’s worth:
Millennia before my birth
That DNA had roamed the earth,
In residents thereof;
The neat thing is, it’s really true,
The feeling that I have for you
Although, of course, it feels brand-new
Is truly ageless love.

So I clicked Help, and then Live Chat (which works even when you’re not actually connected), and next thing I know, I’m chatting with a live rep. You know: “What seems to be the problem, David?”

The winners in the poetry and cartoon categories will be announced tomorrow, right here, same place, same time.

In revisiting all of the stories, one major over-arching theme emerged for me, the conflict between stories that center on what I call "suburban malaise" (born out of "The Swimmer" and "What We Talk about When We Talk about Love" among many others) and those that don't.

The top ten selling games of all time are shown below. All of the games are made by Nintendo and all games in the list have at some point in their lifespan been bundled with their respective console in at least one region.

Researchers at Stony Brook University in New York have shown that the traditionally sorry path of sexual love - a downward spiral from lust to indifference over the space of a decade - is not an iron rule. Scanning the brains of people who have been together for 20 years, the scientists found that about one in 10 couples still display elements of “limerence”, the psychologists’ term for the obsessive behaviour of new lovers.

The bloating that results is less worrying than usual, because we know it's the ideal prelude to the next phase, the era signalled by the bells striking new year, when we put down the champagne glass, pull on the tracksuit bottoms, and convince ourselves we can become a new person. We will work harder, eat less, eschew alcohol. Eventually we will shed our winter skin, and emerge blinking into the sunlight, renewed, revived, redeemed.

"It is the only museum in the world that presents both science and art in this way — and the building itself can be used as a canvas for artists," says the centre's spokesman Christopher Ruckerbauer.

Much of the R&D is done through the company's engineering arm, Lotus Engineering, which is working on everything from a fuel-cell taxi and hybrid limo to a two-stroke engine that burns just about anything.