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...were spending $5.5 billion annually on supplies. "Lifestyle" positioning demanded big changes in merchandise. Farmers raise livestock. Lifestyle farmers have pets and ride horses for fun. Farmers buy feed in quantity and cheaply. Faux farmers buy pet "food" and spare no expense. So TSC stocked up on equine products, bird supplies and pet chow. Out went the cheaper-by-the-ton stuff. In came fancier foods like Hill's Science Diet...
...from a cheap supermarket paperback, “American Prometheus” is an exhaustive 600-page biography of the fascinating J. Robert Oppenheimer ’25, remembered by history as the “father of the atomic bomb.” Journalist Kai Bird and Tufts professor Martin J. Sherwin track the scientist from childhood to death, thoroughly charting his rise and fall through interviews, letters, and transcripts. After following Oppenheimer’s path for a quarter-century, the authors will return tonight to their subject’s alma mater, speaking...
...Bird and Sherwin’s praiseworthy account reveals Oppenheimer as a man tortured from within and hounded from without, a sad victim of both anti-Communism and good old-fashioned revenge...
...Cambridge, England, in 1925, but his social life didn’t get any spicier. However, Oppenheimer’s workaholic tendencies didn’t assuage his head tutor, who chided him on his poor lab skills. In revenge, Robert left the tutor an apple laced with chemicals. Bird and Sherwin speculate that the chemicals were probably non-lethal, but Oppenheimer still faced expulsion from the university. Only the persuasion of his father and a promise to see a psychiatrist saved...
...sight of it was enough to make one outdoorsman cry and Uncle Sam shell out $10 million to protect its habitat. Dubbed the Holy Grail of bird watching, the ivory-billed woodpecker was for decades thought to be extinct, but a team of scientists last week reported seven confirmed sightings within the past 15 months in Arkansas' Cache River National Wildlife Refuge. Researchers warned, however, that "we cannot rule out the possibility that all of our fleeting encounters involved the same bird." Meanwhile, Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton urged bird watchers not to flock to the refuge and "love...