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...delicate and the dangerous meet in the ranch lands of South Texas. In the winter, quail gather in the soft gold of prairie sedge, but snakes, scorpions and wild-boar-like javelina lurk too. In 1999 a fourth-generation South Texas rancher named Tobin Armstrong testified before Congress that he sometimes found illegal immigrants dead of dehydration in the unforgiving brush of his 49,300-acre ranch. It was there that Vice President Dick Cheney, out with a hunting party that included Tobin's daughter Katharine, accidentally sprayed attorney Harry Whittington with birdshot. What took place in the hours before...
...weekend’s road games. Given its competition, “difficult” may also be appropriate. The planets have aligned, and the four top-ranked teams of the ECAC—travel partners No. 6 Cornell and Colgate and partners Harvard and Dartmouth—will gather in a shootout that will have postseason implications. The Crimson will face the Raiders in Hamilton, N.Y. tonight, while the Big Green takes on the Big Red in Ithaca. Tomorrow, Harvard and Dartmouth will swap locations. “You’ve got the top four teams playing head...
Positive psychology, meanwhile, was just starting to gather steam as a distinct field within psychology. Back in the 1950s and ’60s, pioneers like Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers had decided that the positive side of human nature was under-represented in psychology, and they wanted to turn their attention instead toward things like self-actualization and happiness. They founded humanistic psychology, but according to Ben-Shahar, the discipline quickly morphed into self-help and pop psychology...
...minutes later that we realized it was the line for the carousel, which none of us wanted to ride (or admit that we did anyway). We had simply seen the line and blindly gotten in it. Lining up has become a natural instinct: I am often tempted to gather a dozen people, line up at nothing, and see how many people join. If you join the end of a line with a beginning you can’t see, how do you know you’re really lining up for anything at all? Have we Americans been outwitted...
...month-long, bi-national celebration of George Washington's birthday recently began in Laredo, the Texas border town where debutantes and politicians gather to attend balls and watch the Mexican Army join the parade-the only place in the U.S., in fact, where a foreign army is allowed to march down the street. Parade organizers say the 108-year tradition is evidence of the close ties between Mexico and Texas, but those ties seem lately to be fraying as the 1,250-mile border becomes increasingly dangerous. To the east of Laredo, renegade Mexican Army commandos are part...