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...probably unwarranted suspicion of stealing. With her husband suddenly out of work, Jean, the mother, takes a job giving swimming lessons. As Joe gets used to these domestic changes, he is presented with a fresh conundrum: his father's sudden decision to go off and help fight the forest fires raging nearby and his mother's fierce opposition to this plan. "I'm a grown woman," she says to Joe's father. "Why don't you act like a grown man, Jerry...
...Havana, where his father briefly distributed foreign films and other imported products. His father, whose parents were Lebanese, grew up in Boston. His mother hailed from El Salvador, though her parents were Lebanese and Greek. When Sununu was an infant, his family migrated to the tony neighborhood of Forest Hills, N.Y. Their home was filled with letters from relatives in half a dozen countries as well as books and conversations in several languages. Thanks to his mother, childhood trips to Europe and college studies, Sununu is fluent in Spanish, speaks decent French and reads German. But all his life...
President George Bush's promise to plant a billion trees ((ENVIRONMENT, April 30)) sounds impressive. But the mortality of seedlings reduces the total of trees that survive the first few years. And each year older forests are diminished because of fire, insects, disease and harvesting by man. It is not important how many trees are planted, but rather how much forest area is regenerated relative to how much is cut or lost owing to natural causes...
...that the people of the Levant, like peace in Lebanon, cannot be neatly packaged; thus the only way to convey any true sense of them is to transmit their stories at length and in profusion. The result is a huge number of trees, many lovely, that never become a forest. Interlocutors both fascinating and tedious, mundane sight- seeing jaunts and profound observations, telling vignettes and pointless collections of detail are all jumbled together in a work too long by half. Good questions are posed but not answered. Glass himself remains strangely opaque, a formless conduit, until the account...
Ceremonial swords at their side, 2,500 men marched into the central square of Appenzell. "You are accountable only to your conscience and to God," said Beat Graf, the administrator of Appenzell Inner-Rhoden, a half-canton in northeastern Switzerland. A forest of arms shot skyward and, by two-thirds, the men summarily rejected a proposal to grant women the right to vote in local elections...