Word: forest
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...began in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1988 when she was 9 and her mother Dedenka stitched money and jewelry into her two daughters' clothes and took them on vacation to Croatia. "On the bus on the way back to Czechoslovakia," remembers Gupta, "we got down somewhere and went into some forest. The idea was to get to Germany. But the border guards caught us." The next year, Vaclav Havel led Czechoslovakia's revolution. But Gupta's mother had sown the seeds of escape deep in her daughter. By 15, Gupta was modeling in Prague. By 17, it was Milan...
Paulson, a Dartmouth College English major who grew up wanting to be a forest ranger, has devoted his life to finance...
...good teaching. “Universities are as uncongenial to teaching as the Mojave Desert to a clutch of Druid priests. If you want to restore a Druid priesthood, you cannot do it by offering prizes for Druid-of-the-Year. If you want Druids, you must grow forests.” We all know that it takes decades to grow a forest, and no institution can afford to wait decades to create an environment in which great courses will spontaneously emerge and good teaching will thrive...
...Saving Seoul" [May 15], on the city's transformation into a greener urban environment: As a citizen of Seoul, I am so proud that we have reclaimed and cleaned up Cheonggyecheon stream, the centerpiece of the city's environmentally friendly future. Cheonggyecheon, Seoul Forest and Seoul Plaza are green oases where a Seoulite can take a break, as free as a bird. Seoul's welcoming green spaces set a new standard in the design of urban parks for all Asia. I hope other Asian metropolises will learn from Seoul's example. If you visit Seoul, please stop by the green...
Holman was a prodigiously restless world traveler in the early 19th century, a time before Ambien and JetBlue when the world was a dangerous, miserably uncomfortable place to travel. He circled the earth, traversed Siberia, roamed the Australian outback and the Brazilian rain forest, climbed Vesuvius during an eruption, hunted elephants in Ceylon and slave ships in the Atlantic and wrote best-selling books about it all. He did all this despite a grave handicap: he was blind...