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...town of Big Sandy, where his work ethic spoke volumes. In the summers, Smith, a self-described "hick" who turns words like curfew into care-few, picked berries, and tossed 30-lb. bales of hay onto trucks. "I can smell it now," he says, perking up in his Lake Forest, Ill., office, loading faux hay over his shoulder. "We didn't know about lifting weights. Haaaay! That's what you got." The name Lovie he got from his great-aunt Lavana, no doubt requiring him to become a very tolerant man. His most stirring performance took place in 1988, when...
...begin with a protagonist whose girlfriend is “not at all like the other girls”—perhaps because she’s Canadian, or perhaps because she bites him and turns him into a werewolf. We end in an Edenic forest that allows the strange couple to live a blissfully nude life with fellow werewolves. In between, we’re treated to some freaky visuals, some funny ones, and not nearly enough nifty dancing from the ultracharismatic band...
...acre Harvard Forest is getting green—a lot of it—to promote green. The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced this week that it will award over $4.9 million to the Harvard Forest, an ecology and conservation center in Petersham, Mass. The grant is the largest in the center’s 99-year history, eclipsing the one NSF gave in 2000, the previous highest, by nearly one million dollars. The Harvard Forest will use the recent grant to support the work of over 25 scientists, and further research on issues like global warming, land use, invasive...
...much as these stories enrich one another, they also add weight, and occasionally the accumulation becomes more than the novel can bear. Horn writes in slyly beautiful prose—a forest at sunset can suddenly become “a drawstring bag…tightening the early evening sky with wrinkles of naked branches”—but the movements between storylines often feel heavy and imposed. But when Ben comes home from the museum and looks at the Chagall painting (a study of a man floating over a city), we read that Ben himself feels...
...satellite. NigeriaSat-1 took off from Russia but is controlled by Nigerian scientists and engineers from a ground station in Abuja. The satellite, which was built in Britain, is part of a network called the Disaster Monitoring Constellation. Its job includes keeping an orbiting eye on Nigeria's vanishing forest resources and often vandalized oil pipelines. It also watches for impending disasters such as fires and floods and shares the information with a consortium that includes Algeria, China, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam and Britain. That's only the start of Boroffice's ambitious plans. A communications satellite designed to give even...