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Triumph of Turgidity. Last week the results were unwrapped, and with a flourish De Gaulle invited France's 120-member Académie des Sciences and all living Nobel prizewinners for the first preview. The effect was staggering. France's huge official warehouse had been combed through for the original Empire-style furniture (only De Gaulle's eight-room suite has been done in Louis XVI); provincial and national museums were searched for the original paintings. To weave the 24 Aubusson rugs, carefully kept facsimiles of the original patterns were used; Lyon silk-makers simply followed swatches...
...Skills & Muscle." What needs help is Scouting itself. As the U.S. has urbanized, Scouting has continued to flourish in suburbs and middle-sized towns, and to languish in big-city slums where boys are often most troubled. One recent study showed that one out of three suburban boys belonged to the Scouts, compared with one out of seven boys in metropolitan poverty pockets. Not surprisingly, Scouting has been disproportionately white and middle class. According to another survey, 15% of all Scout-aged boys (8 to 17) came from families with less than $3,000 income; yet less than...
...from U.N.C.LE. But it is Thailand's endowments that first attack the senses, opulent gifts of nature nurtured by a benign history. In the gentle air and lemony Siamese sunlight, rice, corn and coconut palms flourish, as do 28 kinds of bananas and 750 varieties of orchids. In the north, worker-elephants still pull the great teak logs from the forest with an efficiency no machine yet invented can match; mangoes, sugar and rubber plants thrive in the south. Along the great, glittering emerald rice fields of the fertile, canal-veined central plain where over a third...
...Thank you very much for including me in your group of teachers. But might I make two further points? 1) I don't believe that there is any conflict between research and teaching. Indeed, there is none of the latter worth anything unless the former continues to flourish. 2) I can't really believe that I ever said that about buildings saying "hello." Despite my admiration for them, no building has ever actually spoken to me. I should be seriously unnerved...
...latest geological findings explain the apparent discrepancy in his 1939 theory. In a paper recently presented at an archaeological conference in Canea, Crete, he explains that the first eruption destroyed all life on Thera around 1520 B.C., but had little effect on Crete, where the Minoan culture continued to flourish...