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...first member of his endangered species to return from captivity to the wild. Minutes later, his nestmate Xewe and two young Andean condors sent along as companions emerged. The birds jumped up and down and flapped their immense wings in an apparent preflight dance while jubilant naturalists watching from distant cliffs poured champagne...
...Margulis conjectures, one protist was driven to devour another. Sometimes this cannibalistic meal was incompletely digested, and the nuclei of prey and predator fused. By joining forces, the fused cells were better able to survive adversity, and because they survived, their penchant for union was passed on to their distant descendants...
...shrugged off as a distant relative, at best, of whom the expanded art audience of the '60s and '70s knew little. In fact, the Met's show is the first Davis retrospective in a quarter of a century. For the younger half of the museum public, it should be an eye opener, because Davis' work testifies -- as art historian Diane Kelder says in her catalog introduction -- to an "aesthetic continuity and intellectual integrity . . . sadly absent from the cynical eclecticism and self-aggrandizement that has characterized much American painting in recent years...
...part, Clinton's prominence is due to the flatness of the field around him. Massachusetts' Paul Tsongas will probably be considered a regional candidate even if he wins the Feb. 18 primary in next-door New Hampshire. Jerry Brown is still orbiting a distant planet. Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey has been tarnished by conflict-of-interest reports, his failure to flesh out a specific message beyond a comprehensive national health-care plan, and an emerging perception that he is little more than a biography in a suit. And then there is Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, whose embodiment of Rooseveltian notions...
...John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. As a reporter and later business editor for the Minneapolis Star, Greenwald focused on economics. Says he: "For many Americans, the 1973 oil shock brought home for the first time the fact that the U.S. economy was vulnerable to conditions in distant parts of the world...