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...towed up the river and put in operation by the mid-1980s. To feed the plants with young trees, a vast reforestation is under way that will clear the land of old growth and establish huge new timber farms. The principal planting is the Gmelina arborea (pronounced malina ar-bor-ea), a hardwood native to Burma and India that grows to 15 in. in diameter in five years and 30 in twelve, or roughly twice as fast as the southern pine, a major source of American pulp...
...school algebra teachers, which I then impaled on slices of percentage pie. Of course under the new Core, you may have to take a Math course. Still it may be wise to do as badly as you can, so you can slip through with a core equivalent of Math Ar...
...elbow with a moralizing aside. His metaphorical flights can plummet ludicrously, as when he compares the cross section of a moment in history to a severed leg of lamb, "where you see the ends of the muscles, nerves, sinews and bone of one piece matching a similar ar rangement in the other." His characters "sink their teeth" into "weighty problems," accept things "lock, stock and barrel," and come to clanging conclusions like: "The old order of things was as dead as a doornail." After an hour or two of this, who could be blamed for edging away from...
Baule Wood Sculpture--Susan Vogel, associate curator of primitive ar' The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fogg Art Museum...
...rendered with maniacal detail−everything in place, every pore on the knobby hands and taut face a deliberate homage to the Flemish quattrocento, and the palette with its squidgy mounds of pigment (paint depicting paint as well as painter) turned into one of the most ar resting displays of realist bravura in recent American...