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...takes truly magical thinking to imagine we will keep resolutions that experience suggests are impossible: to live greener, fit into a size 4, learn Chinese. One study found that nearly a quarter of us lapse within a week, the vast majority before the year is out. Since human frailty is a law of nature, states are compensating with some rules of their own--what are laws if not expectations carved in stone? As of the New Year, you can no longer text-message while driving in Washington State. North Carolina bar owners have to recycle their bottles, and politicians have...
...stars in their own fields who happen to be French. We thought for a while that we might buy an advertisement to publish this list of "French stars" but, apart from having to pay a great deal for the right of reply, we would never have been able to fit all these names onto a single page...
Primal may not be the word to describe the well-groomed landscapes at Kew, the Royal Botanic Gardens on the outskirts of central London, but the backdrop of grassy slopes and monumental trees turns out to be just the right fit for Moore's work, which can seem both powerfully natural and shrewdly cultivated. For "Moore at Kew," the vast show that opened there in September and remains through the end of March, 27 of his large bronzes and one massive figure in white fiberglass have been set to advantage all around Kew's elegant acreage. Silhouetted against...
...igloo could fit about eight people and became a source of pride for the House in its short lifetime...
While Payack may not fit the mold of the classical poet laureate, he says that he has always been enamored with the ancient Greeks and Romans...