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...right with the third President. William Jefferson Clinton began his Administration by invoking the memory of Jefferson in his Inaugural Address. Ronald Reagan repeatedly called on Jefferson in order to justify his attempts to reduce the size of the Federal Government, urging us all to "pluck a flower from Thomas Jefferson's life and wear it in our soul forever...
...conservation strategies to its development strategies," says architect Choa. "But it will take deep collaboration between government officials and planners to bring this about." So far, it isn't happening. Shanghai, for example, has trumpeted its "Green Culture" campaign, which has filled the city with grassy parks and perched flower boxes upon highway dividers. But energy-efficient measures have not been a priority of "Green Culture," even though the city this year forecasts a 2 million-kilowatt energy shortfall. Shanghai's skyscraper boom boasts only a handful of green buildings?structures that consume up to 70% less energy than normal...
Most of the works that make Thomas a major figure in 20th century poetry had been written by the time he was 26, including such poems as "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower," "And Death Shall Have No Dominion" and "When All My Five and Country Senses See." After that he survived largely by playing the role of the errant romantic genius, though he did manage to produce Under Milk Wood, his enduringly popular play for voices, in his last years. After a teenage stint on a newspaper in his native Wales, the only paid work...
Eleven new businesses, ranging from flower shops to taquerias, have opened in the past year...
...President of the U.S. when he wants, e-mail any of 14 grandchildren about school and baseball ("Astros might go to the World Series"), talk details with a handyman making repairs on the house that has been his spiritual home for eight decades, track menacing chipmunks in the flower beds and then turn and embrace a visiting billionaire...