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A Girdle Round The Earth: Wome Travellers And Adventurers, by Maria Aitken, Robinson Publishing, $21.95. Although its title seems foot-in-mouth rather than tongue-in-cheek, Maria Aitkens's sprightly survey of unconventional women introduces us to some very appealing people. If there are any benighted souls who persist in thinking of females as the weaker sex, this compendium of daring examples and bold behavior should change their minds: Annie Taylor's pioneering explorations of Tibet and Mary Kingsley's penchant for prodding hippopotami with her umbrella are among the book's many examples fo fortitude in action. A generous provision of photographs and illustrations and the many evocative quotations from period documents further enhance this well-organized safari into the unfamiliar The Angels And Us, by Mortimer Adler, Collier Macmillan, $10.95. You don't have to be a believer in any particular religious faith in order to enjoy this devilishly clever volume. As Adler wends his leisurely but lively way through the history of humanity's ideas about angels, the reader is constantly reminded of how these incorporeal but incandescent beings have become part of our collective mythology. Guardian angels are certainly nice to have around, and writers from Dante to Milton to Goethe have made brilliant use of their dramatic possibilities; and Renaissance art would certainly be much the poorer if deprived of angelic presences. The balance of the book provides a brisk discussion of the philosophical issues involved, and along the way offers a definitive answer to the question of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Greenfinger, by Julian Rathbone, Penguin, $4.95. Rathbone is a prolific novelist who churns out thrillers and Booker Prize finalists with equal facility, and Greenfinger finds him in entertainment mode. This is a fast-paced tale set in the urban and rural jungles of Central America, where greedy multinational corporations, corrupt officials and have-gun-will-murder mercenaries are engaged in a plot to suppress a new agricultural discovery. Into this maelstrom of death and deception wanders Esther Carter, who is supposed to be merely the dutiful wife of her agronomist husband. But when he falls victim to these villainous conspirators, Esther takes an exacting and exciting revenge that doesn't end until all the bad guys have bitten the dust.

The sheriff's office reported that the undercover detective was meeting with 22-year-old Bruce Alexander Kohn on Friday morning when Kohn saw other officers approaching to arrest him.

Mixing fact and fiction, Mr. [Ed Regis], the author of \"Who Got Einstein's Office?,\" a book about the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., writes of what he calls a transhuman future -- a future, in other words, that transcends normal human limits. He describes fantastical ideas as if they were coming true: we read of Gerard O'Neill and Keith and Carolyn Henson planning space colonies in the fifth Lagrangian region; Eric Jones and Ben Finney showing us how to travel to the stars; Eric Drexler giving us \"complete control over the structure of matter\" with his nanotechnology (that is, moving matter \"atom by atom\"); and Hans Moravec making people over into bush robots -- so named for their many branching arms -- and then reducing them to patterns of information that can be broadcast in outer space.

Joseph D. Robinson reviews \"False Prophets,\" by Alexander Kohn.

Sharon Begley reviews \"False Prophets,\" by Alexander Kohn.

The sheriff's office reports the undercover detective was meeting with 22-year-old Bruce Alexander Kohn on Friday morning when Kohn saw other officers approaching to arrest him. Officials say Kohn pulled a revolver from his pocket, and the detective shot the man in the neck. Kohn was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Sheriff's office officials say the 15-year veteran acted to save his own life and that Kohn's six-shot revolver was fully loaded. A neighbor told police she saw the 7-year-old waving from the family's home Thursday morning and then alone in the driveway about 25 minutes later. The neighbor called [Karolyn Gail Minor]'s brother, who went to the home and then called police.

Walter Gratzer reviews \"Discovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge,\" by Robert Root-Bernstein, \"Fortune or Failure: Missed Opportunities and Chance Discoveries in Science,\" by Alexander Kohn, \"Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science.\" by Royston M. Roberts, and \"Harrap's Book of Scientific Anecdotes,\" by Adrian Berry.

Although Mr. [Alan Schneider] displayed a catholicity of taste over the years -among his early efforts were stagings of such plays as Thornton Wilder's ''Skin of Our Teeth,'' Robert Anderson's ''All Summer Long'' and Clifford Odets's ''Country Girl'' - he would become best known for his more experimental work, and in one of the few passages of self-assessment in this volume he makes it clear where his affinities lay. ''I am the only American theater director who ever went from the avant-garde to the Old Guard without having passed through the Establishment,'' he writes. ''I have always favored the poetic over the prosaic, siding with instinct over reason, swayed by the power of symbols, images, metaphors, all of the substances lurking behind the closed eyelids of the mind. To me, these are more faithful signs of essential truths than all those glossy photographs that seek to mirror our external world. I've always preferred Chekhov to Ibsen, Tennessee Williams to Arthur Miller, and Dostoyevsky to Tolstoy; but [Samuel Beckett]'s metaphors reach deepest into my subconscious self.'' Having been signed up to direct the first American production of ''Waiting for Godot'' in 1955, Mr. Schneider spends a week looking for the elusive writer in Paris and finally succeeds in trying to get Mr. Beckett to answer his questions about the play. ''According to him,'' Mr. Schneider writes, ''Godot had 'no meaning' and 'no symbolism.' There was no 'general point of view involved,' but it was certainly 'not existentialist.' Nothing in it meant anything other than what it was on the surface. 'It's just about two people who are like that.' That was all he would say.''

The Hebrew word for \"carrot,\" for example, is very similar to the word for \"decree\" or \"judgment,\" and who wouldn't want a favorable judgment from the Almighty? \"In Jewish tradition, on a holy day, you're not allowed to handle money because money is connected with work,\" [Hazzan Sarah Alexander] said. \"We can't have the 'Christmas Eve offering' or the 'Easter offering' - we can't have something similar to that on our holiday.\" With the ticket system, worshipers are asked to make a specific donation amount, \"but we never turn anyone away,\" she said. \"It's always flexible if there's a person or a family who has any kind of financial issues.\"