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There is plenty of clutter in the spacious office of William Gates. Overlooking a 260-acre campus dotted with magnificent fir trees, the room contains a forest of paper. His desk is completely covered by scattered piles of documents; next to it the matching beige credenza is buried under small...
What has brought them crowding together is an illness that is baffling * scientists and panicking the 175,000 residents of the 17 million-acre Navajo nation. So far, 18 people have been struck with what is being called "unexplained adult respiratory-distress syndrome." Almost all the victims have lived on...
"MIT had offered us student housing, so we got a cab and he took us all over hell's half-acre and finally ended up at MIT, and we're in front of this army barracks from World War II," he says. "My wife said, 'No way, lose. We're...
Battlefield is the story of one man's communion with the land and with history. The book begins with Svenson's purchase of a forty acre farm at Cross Keys in the mid 1980s. Svenson, a professional artist, bought this rural plot as a place where he could regenerate himself...
Just as important is the growing concern that typical lawns have become almost sterile -- separate from nature rather than a part of it. Nature writer Sara Stein joined the back-to-natives movement after she noticed the disappearance of fireflies and frogs, butterflies and birds from her five-acre property...