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...easy to take care of. “It’s alive, and the fact that we can, away from home, sustain a living thing is quite comforting,” she said of the green cactus with yellow flowers that sits on her windowsill. Etcoff is the author of “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty.” She said that she studied “human beauty” because she was interested in the effects of beauty in nature on the human psyche. As a psychologist, Etcoff said...
...First, Ilyinsky's citation of a sportscaster's use of the word "literally" during a Giants-Eagles NFL football game implies that the author heard the commentary herself. In fact, she learned of the account by reading about it on the web log "Literally...
...Shaw is actually buried in a mass grave near where he was killed at Fort Wagner, South Carolina, but his engraved stone depicts a Classical sparring-match of sorts. Other, simpler tombstones mark the graves of Dorothea Dix, social activist for the mentally ill, and Bernard Malamud, author of the baseball’s classic novel “The Natural.” In addition to the on-site history lesson, Mt. Auburn boasts a renowned horticultural diversity. With over 5,500 trees of nearly 700 varieties, only the most assiduous arborist will be able to identify them...
...figure that additional legal fees associated with a drawn-out appeals process will force the Lay family to settle those suits. "They could use it as a negotiating factor to convince the Lays, 'You pay off the civil factor, and we'll lay off,'" says Houston attorney Joel Androphy, author of the text White Collar Crime...
...Otis Graham, author of Unguarded Gates - A History of America's Immigration Crisis (published in 2004 by Rowman & Littlefield) and a professor emeritus at University of California-Santa Barbara, talks to TIME's Lee S. Ettleman on how much has changed in our attitudes toward immigration since 1915, when America was a nation of 100 million. His answer? Not all that much. TIME: What were the prevalent immigrant groups in 1915? Graham: By 1915 we were well into the period in which the main flows of immigrants were quite large. They were from different parts of Europe than the older...