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...highest level of glassmaking, and his most recent collection is no exception. Soft Explosion comprises six designs and an ongoing series of one-of-a-kind objects, including vases reminiscent of growing trees, bowls resembling splashing water and a limited-edition centerpiece of fallen forms that symbolize a forest path. The glassmakers at Steuben gave each Soft Explosion piece, inspired by nature, an individual personality, so that they are similar but never identical. Just as Mother Nature would have...
...newer novel explores the relationship between people and the land they live on, this time in southern Appalachia. Kingsolver interweaves three story strands set in the fictional Zebulon County near the border of North Carolina and Tennessee. In this small farming community on the edge of a great forest, the contact between human and nature is still immediate and meaningful in a way it is not in the concrete and stone of Cambridge...
...crossing and re-crossing genes. Lusa, a newly widowed outsider, buries her grief in the insect world, stripping the complexities of human emotion down to the single filaments on the wing of a moth. And Deanna, a lean mountain woman, jealously guards a newly arrived coyote family in the forest...
When children see Robert Torres at restaurants, "I'll make eye contact and wave," says the Santa from Lake Forest, Calif. "They'll hide behind the booth, and it becomes a game." Torres was spotted by kids when visiting a small village in Mexico with no electricity. The kids, Huichol Indians, yelled "Santa!" then followed him, giggling, as if he had been the Pied Piper...
...well, sort of hilarious. So, revel in the humor and know that field ± sporting event + alcohol + defiant community = fun. The utter absence of Yale students means more alcohol for Harvard students and fewer pranks that nobody notices. (It’s like the mime in a forest question. If a prank happens in a stadium, and nobody sees it, does it happen? No.) And the new restrictions beg for student guerilla-style ingenuity. Line your pants pockets with plastic bags and then fill them with gin or moonshine. Better yet, do this with cargo pants or those...