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...unknown Carl Sagan that same year sifted through a thousand pictures of Earth shot by a weather satellite orbiting only 480 kilometers up. In a paper entitled Is There Life on Earth? he reported that only one photograph, of a snow-covered superhighway cutting a straight line through a forest, showed any evidence of man's presence on this planet...
Making it through Harvard requires that same self-sufficiency. There are no parents to watch out for your needs, and although your proctor or entryway tutor may throw good study breaks, you need to make sure you eat, sleep and take care of yourself in our collegiate forest. College is not only about autonomous living, but also about learning how much weight you can carry. Self-sufficiency does not mean taking all the extra group gear or heaping on the extracurriculars. It is about knowing your limits and bearing the weight that you can handle—no more...
That progress owes plenty to people like Virgil Ware. He still lies in a nondescript grave marked only by blue carnations and hidden in a thick roadside forest. Each Mother's Day, his sister Joyce clears the overgrowth. "When we hit the lottery, we're going to move you," she tells him as she works. In the warmest months, swarms of fireflies illuminate the site--innocent reminders of the larger conflagrations that swept through Birmingham in the summer...
Forget China's astronauts. The country's most famous intergalactic traveler lives in the last house on his lane at the edge of a Siberian forest. Meng Zhaoguo's odyssey began at the Red Flag logging camp in the Manchurian province of Heilongjiang, when he saw a metallic glint thrown off nearby Mount Phoenix. Thinking a helicopter had crashed, he set out to scavenge for scrap. The 36-year-old lumberjack stood gazing at the wreck from across a valley when "Foom! Something hit me square in the forehead and knocked...
...Palmgarten Founded in 1868, the 20-hectare park offers thousands of native and exotic plants (giant tree ferns, rain-forest orchids), both al fresco and in greenhouses. Tours, concerts, exhibitions and many more recreational activities are on offer. Catch a U6 or U7 subway train to Westend...