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...best remembered for her wide-ranging efforts to beautify the U.S. While her anti-billboard campaign fizzled, her tree plantings and her continual calls for more parks and better playgrounds have made many Americans more thoughtful about the quality of their environment. Lyndon Johnson once complained, tongue in cheek: "Sometimes I'm interrupted in my nap by Lady Bird and Laurance Rockefeller and about 80 others in the next room talking about flowers and roadside picnic tables...
...bird flu than any other country. H5N1 is found in nearly every corner of the archipelago and has become so prevalent that the government no longer reports individual outbreaks to international authorities. Unlike on commercial farms in the West, chickens are often raised in backyards. And because people live cheek by beak with poultry, H5N1 can more easily pass from birds to humans...
...younger daughter views the world with a sanguinity that is heartbreaking. Every morning, as she goes to school, various people twirl her around and lift her into the school bus. When she plays in the park, other parents smile and pinch her cheek; they push her swing and point out birds and butterflies. I watch these strangers with an eye that is both benign and blighted. On the one hand, I wish that my children will be fortunate enough never to be exposed to the darker side of human nature. Yet I know that as a protective parent, I probably...
...sensible adult behavior we’ve adopted. You can try it yourself: If you want to play freeze-tag, build a fort or play make-believe, how many of your friends want to play with you? They’ll probably humor you in a tongue-in-cheek way, covering their discomfort with phrases like, “Wow, that’s random!” or, “Oh, you—you’re so quirky.” Or, if they’re drunk, maybe they’ll play along. Those...
...budgetary authority over individual libraries but plays a coordinating role between them. While the University Library is a department of the central administration, each of the University’s 10 faculties funds its own library independent of the center.In the past, Verba has often made a tongue-in-cheek comparison of Harvard’s structure to that of the Soviet Union, noting that it “ought to be equally ungovernable.” He draws an analogy between Soviet republics and Harvard’s different “tubs”, each of differing sizes...