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...never been much of an environmentalist. Maybe it's because so many of the most ardent activists have a shrill, we-must-abandon-our-vehicles-and-go-live-in-a-mud-hut tone to their message. Or maybe it's because I was reared in the South, where a disproportionate number of folks drive big trucks, regard wildlife as something to be shot and mounted and deploy enough hairspray every day to open ozone holes the size of Georgia. Whatever the reason, even after more than a decade of environmental indoctrination on both the West and East Coasts, I still...
Though he had planned to follow in family tradition and become a doctor after receiving a medicine degree from the University of Greifswald in 1925, a desire to travel led him to abandon medicine, according to a Harvard News Office press release. He then completed a doctorate in Biology at the University of Berlin just 16 months later...
While they’re still in the Yard, the eccentric sight attracts attention—elderly people complain about the noise, students ask to join in, and, occasionally, tourists abandon John Harvard to photograph them...
...least of would be more efforts at conservation. The only reason to resolve the ANWR debate in a budget resolution was to avoid an inevitable filibuster. But ANWR is exactly the type of issue that should not be swept under the carpet. That the Senate would abandon ANWR for, in terms of the time horizon involved, a smidgin of oil is disappointing. That the Senate would do so without admitting that such a move is worthy of a full Senate debate and is opposed by most Americans is disturbing...
...Frist are not talking-at all-about the really divisive issues, especially the coming showdown over judicial appointments. Frist, who may run for President, wants to show conservatives that he can be a tough guy on an issue that is paramount to them. Reid is not about to abandon his successful stubbornness...