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...have been a bird-watcher since I was this big," Mayr says, motioning to the height of a young boy. "I was brought up in a good German family, and every Sunday, we went into nature. My mother knew every mushroom in the forest, and my father knew the flowers and the birds...
...Bunyan tales: the combatants fall asleep after days of pummeling each other, and "Tarnation snored louder than a rockslide, while Angel snored like a locomotive in a thunderstorm. Their snoring rumbled through the earth, tumbling boulders and shaking trees loose. By morning, they had snored down nearly the whole forest...
...flights on planes with under 31 seats -- tighten safety inspections, reduce the number of hours pilots can fly and require dispatchers to help crews check weather, routes and plane weight and balance. (Small-plane pilots often do all this themselves.) At yesterday's crash site, crews hacked through dense forest to remove burned bodies from the wreckage of the two-engine Jetstream turboprop, the smallest type flown by American Eagle. Fifteen of 20 people on board died. A larger American Eagle craft crashed in Indiana Oct. 31, killing all 68 aboard. A Jetstream 41 -- similar to the plane...
Director Declan Donnellan has a gimmick: all the characters are played by men, as in Shakespeare's day. Designer Nick Ormerod has built a pristine set -- white walls, with green streamers for the Forest of Arden. In themselves, these elements are neither radical nor necessarily helpful; every English public school has a tradition of same-sex actors, and every penny-pinching little theater company leaves the scenery and props to the audience's imagination. But here the ideas seem like masterstrokes. They strip away the academic barnacles that too often make an evening of Shakespeare feel like a final exam...
...plan to bring the entire Faculty of Arts and Sciences on-line. This stage consists of connecting academic buildings as well as many of the athletic facilities, including Weld Boathouse and the Bright Hockey Center. Eventually, University plans call for the establishment of a connection to the distant Harvard Forest...