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After the long workouts, the team members returned to their rooms and sometimesfound scorpions in their beds. One player had arather close encounter with a rattlesnake. And theplayers had to care for the horses--donated byTolbort Wilkinson, a friend of Jones.
There were already several reasons to think the latter is true. For one thing, the existence of the belt and cloud are natural consequences of established theories about the birth of the solar system. According to such theories, the early sun, formed from a cloud of gas and dust, was...
The oldest version of the narrative glowed with a confidence of divine sponsorship: America was lit from within. Later, Americans adopted the more aggressive myth of Manifest Destiny. Curiously, the members of the baby-boom generation came to believe that the ideas of divine sponsorship and Manifest Destiny were intended...
The objectivity of collage -- taking an image from outside and putting it, whole and entire, in the fictional space of the painting -- appealed to Magritte, because he liked standardized images; it was their encounter and rearrangement that created the magic, more than the things themselves. "Our secret desire," he remarked...
"She was one of the most powerful teachers onecould hope to encounter. She left an enduring markon everyone she came in contact with," he said.