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Intrigued by this tale, Erik's eldest son Leif, sometime between 997 and 1003, decided to sail westward to find the new land. First, say the sagas, the crew came to a forbidding land of rocks and glaciers. Then they sailed on to a wooded bay, where they dropped anchor for a while. Eventually they continued south to a place he called Vinland ("wineland," probably for the wild grapes that grew there). Leif and his party made camp for the winter, then sailed home. Members of his family returned in later years, but Leif never did. Erik died shortly after...
...Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw was the keynote speaker of "Operation Recognition 2000," held before a respectful crowd of about 400 in CRLS' War Memorial gymnasium...
Stevens said that a search committee considered Steven Spielberg and Matt Damon as possible speakers before aiming their efforts at Brokaw, the longtime NBC anchor. One search committee member is a friend of Brokaw, making it easier to convince him to speak at CRLS rather than at numerous other WWII graduation ceremonies taking place across the country...
...once forest fragments shrink beyond some unknown threshold, the entire system loses its ability to recover. page refers to a recent study led by the University of Michigan's Lisa Curran, who contends that human activities such as logging may have doomed Indonesia's great dipterocarp trees, the anchor of its rain forests...
...life is the fact of his having been married five times. He jokes, "If at first you don't succeed, try again," and then offers a more serious account: "The times were so disorderly, and everything was up in the air. As part of that, you tried to anchor yourself. You're looking for an anchor, and a very attractive woman is to be preferred, if available. But they're not always so capable of being married, having a husband who is just another wandering soul in the night." He pays Freedman the ultimate Bellow compliment: "I can never...