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...found that both practices increased the population and variety of bird species living in the area in subsequent years...
...merchants in Britain and China.Also introduced in this first novel, although not developed enough to make it satisfying in its own right, is a golden thread of mysticism that melds art and spirituality. While bathing in the Ganga, Deeti receives a vision of a double-masted ship with a bird at the prow—the Ibis. Without knowing who or what it carries, or even having seen such a ship before, the sense of its significance overwhelms Deeti, and she hangs a portrait of the Ibis in her family shrine.It is hinted that other figures will come to have...
...alleged hide-out. Once again, we take their word for it. But—once again—the turkey is nowhere to be found. We do come across some cute rabbits, but unless a clump of them had somehow been mistaken for a turkey, the elusive bird is Harvard’s Loch Ness Monster—a myth and a mystery...
...display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History through Sept. 6, 2009, is an engaging, in-depth examination of color in the animal world that looks at both its purpose and uses. Upon entering the exhibit, the first thing to catch the eye is a display box containing stuffed birds, where the electric, turquoise-shaded feathers of the Spangled Cotinga bird contrast with the Brazilian Tanager’s deep red feathers. To the right of these spectacular birds, mounted on the wall in a somewhat less flashy display box, are dozens of shells of Cuban land snails. The perfectly...
...Capitol and the Pentagon. He and other members of the group soon fled into seclusion, taking on assumed names. He and his wife, fellow radical Bernardine Dohrn, turned themselves in after charges were dropped because of tainted evidence. (Ayers' famous quote afterward: "Guilty as hell, and free as a bird. It's a great country.") By the mid-1980s, Ayers had re-emerged as an education scholar and was on track toward tenured status at the University of Illinois. In the early 1990s, Chicago's mayor, Richard M. Daley, named him an assistant deputy mayor for education...