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...results of human artifice are one thing, the effects of nature are another. A raccoon's coat is natural, a raccoon coat is not. Hair grows naturally on the human head, but its naturalness vanishes the instant it is groomed with comb, brush, scissors or curlers. The term natural, in its strictest sense, should not be applied to anything contrived or even changed by man. Some philosophers, to be sure, encourage a soupy sort of reductionism. "Nature who made the mason, made the house," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. That notion is nonsense. It is plain as rain that people...
...November that only three units remain unsold. And the townsfolk in nearby Land O' Lakes are not complaining, perhaps because a 12-ft. concrete wall screens Paradise from outside scrutiny. Says Bischoff, a former lay Christian minister: "I get up in the morning, take a shower, dry off, comb my hair and go to work. I never could have imagined it." Ah, paradise...
...instructors at Fort Bragg, N.C. Many of those troops were pinned down by the rebels in Morazan until the Dragonfly jets forced the guerrillas to abandon their positions. U.S. military advisers in El Salvador have been trying to persuade army troops to move in five-man patrols as they comb the countryside. Instead, the Salvadorans travel in vulnerable column formations along main roads. Says a frustrated U.S. aide in San Salvador: "The key to counterinsurgency is employing the same tactics that the guerrillas use: night fighting, small patrols, avoidance of roads and open spaces. But it is just not sinking...
Beverly Police Capt. Gordon Richards said yesterday that a group of 25 volunteer divers will begin to comb the bottom of Wenham Lake, located north of the city, as early as Monday...
...capitol press room. Some show an appealing honesty. "Before I give you the benefit of my remarks," intoned one lawmaker, "I'd like to know what we're talking about." Others mangle metaphors. "From now on, I'm watching everything you do with a fine-tooth comb." Some don't add up at all. "Two and two don't make four in my book." Then there are the sayings that show a bit too much Freudian slip. "There comes a time to put principle aside and do what's right," goes one quote...