Bigger Secrets:
More Than 125 Things They Prayed You'd Never Find Out
by William Poundstone
They dared us to print the depraved secret rites of America's fraternal lodges. Vestal virgins, animal sacrifice, transvestism, 6-inch steel spikes--nothing held back, page 31.
Fancy-schmancy Antoine's restaurant of New Orleans will not divulge the 90-year-old secret formula for Oysters Rockefeller. We sneaked a sample to a laboratory for analysis. Forbidden recipe, page 3.
How did David Copperfield make the Statue of Liberty disappear on national TV? We found someone who knows and made him talk. Step-by-step explanation, so simple your kid sister could do it, page 209.
MTV plays a video containing a secret message that can be revealed only with a videocassette recorder. Drive parents crazy, page 235.
Blackjack players beat the casinos with a computer hidden in their pants. We got the gismo and tried it out. Unlimited $$$ and shrimp cocktails, page 122.
Nabisco bars reporters from the secret room where they whip up the white stuff in Oreos. What's in that room, and why aren't we supposed to see it? Maniacal details, page 15.
There's a sperm bank just for Nobel prize winners and Olympic gold medal athletes. We peeked at their secret sperm catalog. Full exposé, page 103.
You can play many video games for free. Shameless video game addicts show how. Results of a misspent youth, page 143.
A respectable, nationwide college fraternity brands pledges with a red-hot iron. Ghastly adolescent rituals, page 63. |