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...enough of trail tours? The Black heritage Trail begins at the Shaw-54th Regiment Memorial in Boston common. This monument honors the first regiment of black volunteers from the north to fight in the Civil war, as well as their colonel, Harvard College graduate Robert Gould Shaw (played by Matthew Broderick in Hollywood's portrayal, "Glory...
...survival of the monarchs--already threatened by logging in their winter roosts in the mountains west of Mexico City and by pesticides in their Cornbelt breeding grounds--but also over our increasing dependence on high-tech, genetically engineered food crops. "This is a heads-up," warns entomologist Fred Gould of North Carolina State University...
...Orlando. But experts wonder whether the whole theme-park business is maturing, as the children of U.S. baby boomers get older and hence reduce the number of repeat trips. "I just don't think it makes a lot of sense to build more theme parks in Orlando," says Alan Gould, a media analyst with Gerard Klauer Mattison. "They've reached the saturation point, and profits are going to come down...
...fecund is Andersen's satiric gift, and so broad his scope, that he almost incidentally sprays tiny rat-a-tat bullets at Alec Baldwin, Rupert Murdoch, Stephen Jay Gould, AIDS-awareness ribbons and the word lite. With a sweeter brand of malice, he takes direct (and hilarious) aim at Wall Street money-manager/pundit/provocateur (and TIME columnist) James J. Cramer, who is clearly the model for one of his more memorable characters...
Harvard University paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, who has long battled what he calls "Darwinian fundamentalism," dismisses the meme as a "meaningless metaphor." H. Allen Orr, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Rochester, isn't much nicer. "I think memetics is an utterly silly idea," he complains. "It's just cocktail-party science...