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...It’s the classic tale of true love versus love of the Game. For us hockey fans, both sentiments peak in the spring, when les fleurs d’amour are in bloom and Lord Stanley’s Cup is prim and prime. Unfortunately, picking one usually means throwing away the other...
...seem much more captivated by the magic of a salmon's returning to its birthplace to spawn than by the miracle that obsessed our forebears: making deserts bloom. How to replenish water-dependent nature while meeting the demands of water-dependent society is going to test our ingenuity and will. Let's hope they won't be overtaxed...
...added). The last and most famous, which occurred 65 million years ago and was caused by a giant meteorite strike off the present-day coast of Yucatan, ended the age of dinosaurs. These catastrophes followed a typical sequence. First, a large part of biodiversity was destroyed. There was a bloom of a small number of "disaster species," such as medleys of fungi and ferns, that survived and reproduced rapidly to fill the habitable spaces emptied of other life. As more time passed, a few "Lazarus species" reappeared in localities from which they had been wiped out, having been able...
Beverly Hills is one of the hottest places to live--for Egyptians. This new Beverly Hills is among the latest suburbs to bloom in the desert outside Cairo, a city growing so fast that newcomers are taking over rooftops and cemeteries. Cairo (pop. 7.7 million) is the epitome of congestion and sprawl. It's what happens when the human population multiplies and spreads out of control. But the problem of unrestrained growth isn't confined to developing countries with high birthrates. In England, as much land as there is in all of Wales has been converted since 1960 from "areas...
...think it a topic much worth discussing. And he was right. For a quarter-century, untold thousands of people who never heard of Delmore Schwartz have read Humboldt's Gift and been beguiled by its stand-alone fictional power. That is what thousands more, knowing nothing of Allan Bloom, will eventually find in Ravelstein...