Representative Will Wood of Indiana, Republican, called at the White House today and made arrangements to send Easter eggs laid by the Aracanga, a red and blue macaw.

'I didn't expect to see you today,' he went on, 'especially not mob-handed. Mind you, I don't remember a great deal about seeing you yesterday.'

Neurophysiologists failed to find any evidence for such fields of electrical activity in the brain, and so tended to dismiss Gestalt theory in general rather than Köhler's unsuccessful attempt at neuroreductionism in particular.

A man holds a handful of rice as he poses for the photographer in a rice factory in Jiaosi, Ilan County, Taiwan, April 7, 2008.