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Rounding out the singles competitors are two more upstarts, Abby Meiselman, 17th among Florida's juniors, and Kristen Mertz, a high-ranking junior in Pennsylvania...
...Spain huge amounts of unearned purchasing power. It was spent to build the most elegant society the world had ever seen up to that time in Europe . . . But it was a consumptive society, and when the Spaniards went through their gold, they invested nothing-and economically they entered the 17th century barefoot. The question for us is: Have we found a way to build an affluent society? Are we putting enough back into the system so that we can assure our capacity to produce a high standard of living for our heirs...
...extends much farther than the eye can see: a great tapestry pf shimmering blue lakes and islands forested with silver birch, black spruce and majestic red pines. Eagles and ospreys wheel overhead, while moose and wolves roam the woods as they did in the days of the 17th century voyageurs. Crystal-clear lakes teem with enough trout and walleyed pike to make even the fishing novice feel like the compleat angler. At dusk the call of the loon is heard...
...stages in between is highly speculative. But his hold on elusive ideas is so sure, his erudition so vast and effortless, that a coherent historical design gradually emerges: Aristotle's invention of logic culminated in the scientific discoveries of Kepler, Copernicus and Galileo in the 16th and 17th centuries, and, two centuries later, in the Nietzschean quest for "mastery over nature by its own instruments." This is the essence of scientific technology...
...casual stroll by a Peabody Museum archaeologist past construction sites in Harvard Yard led to the discovery of historical artifacts that may provide important information about life in Cambridge and at Harvard in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries...