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...among the palms and ferns at the U.S. Botanical Gardens to deliver his Earth Day speech last week, his toughest critics were those green activists who had supported him so wholeheartedly during the presidential campaign. When the speech was over, you could almost hear the environmentalists heave a communal sign of relief: their new President showed he really does have a green streak. Reversing a stand that Bush took at last year's Earth Summit in Rio, Clinton declared that the U.S. would sign an international treaty to protect the diversity of living species. And the President followed through...
...evidence for communal living was the fact that groups of nests were found in a single layer of sediment, implying that they were all built in the same year. Beyond that, the nests were spaced an average of 23 ft. apart -- about the size of an adult maiasaur. Birds often do the same thing, laying their eggs close enough together for maximum mutual protection, yet far enough apart so that they can move easily past their neighbors. Inside the nests, Horner found lots of tiny eggshell fragments. If the baby maiasaurs had simply hatched and wandered off to fend...
...dancers work on a communal level, each contributing to the whole of the performance, rather than based on a traditional hierarchy. Cinderella, Prince Charming, and the fairy godmother in no way dominate the performance. If any characters stand out, it is the stepsisters and that is for reasons beyond the level of dance. In fact, the fairy godmother's role seems disappointing and anticlimactic. She enters as a mysteriously draped witch-like figure, yet when she throws off her cape, her tiny insect-like wings and simplistic dance movements, which at best included numerous bourres pointe across the stage, brought...
Senior Tutor Gordon Harvey characterizes Leverett as "big, friendly and unpretentious--our dining hall provides the perfect symbol of Leverett--it's wide, open and spacious--communal, yet elegant...
Other house facilities include a weight room, the Quad Sound Studios, two computer rooms, a pool room, several communal kitchens and many practice rooms...