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...first virtual newscaster 16. Rose up, in dialect 17. Word on either side of "-a-" 18. Set sail 20. OCS relative 22. Short poem, of sorts 25. Defendant in a controversial 1921 murder trial 28. Poet's conjunction 29. A target of the Asian long-horned beetle 32. Forbidden city, once 34. Starchy dish 35. Javits Center architect 36. Part of IV 38. It released 13 Lebanese held as bargaining chips 41. McCain has admitted he wasn't candid about this issue 44. __ Images Inc. posted images of a hush-hush Air Force proving ground...
...quiet Iranian film, released last year at the New York Film Festival. The documentary about twin 12-year old girls, imprisoned in their home from birth, took the world by surprise. The girls' father, their malevolent "protector," contends in the film that he is shielding his daughters from the forbidden fruit that will lure them away from the right path. The twins flounder, so developmentally and emotionally stunted that they can barely speak...
...Jews and blacks were not considered worthy of membership. A woman’s place was, well, in her own club, the Chilton-—not in the den of men, in any event. At Myopia Hunt Club on Boston’s North Shore, women golfers were forbidden to enter through the main door or linger in the lounge...
...dealing with the extinction crisis is no simple matter, since much of the world's biodiversity resides in its poorest nations, especially in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Can such countries justify setting aside national parks and nature reserves where human encroachment and even access is forbidden? Is it legitimate to spend large sums of money to save some species--be it an elephant or an orchid--in a nation in which a sizable percentage of the people are living below the poverty line...
...governments in the U.S. are trying to concentrate growth in some places while sparing others. Glendening has decreed that roads and sewer lines will be provided only in designated areas. The oldest American experiment along these lines is the growth boundary around Portland, Oregon. Since 1979 development has been forbidden outside an area that covers 24 municipalities and three counties. The plan has kept sprawl in check, but competition for limited space has made the city an expensive place to live. Even if governments have the best intentions, growth boundaries are hard to maintain, as has already been found...