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The Times fronts what it claims is an earth-shattering discovery: A researcher experimenting on monkeys has determined that their brains add neurons to the cerebral cortex even in adulthood.
But the papers don't effectively explain why they think this is also potentially earth-shattering news for everyone else.
She picks up her dry cleaning the following day, however, and eventually writes him a letter, in which she recounts earth-shattering orgasms with other men: "I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but the fact is that I was never able to have true sexual pleasure with you."
Since there seems to be no earth-shattering news in today's papers, let's go right to my favorite story: the 78-year-old doorman, retiring from the Plaza Hotel.
But is that an earth-shattering advance?