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...this business, you have to shop around andtake [the promoter's] advice with a grain ofsalt," Loong said...
Puryear's work has the exact American-grain quality -- if not the episodic fussiness -- of that earlier virtuoso of the dovetail and the lamination, the sculptor H.C. Westermann. It also has some of Westermann's laconic humor. Sanctuary, 1982, is one such piece: a cubical box of thick wood mounted on two raw branches with the bark still on them, which turn out to be "legs," pedaling a wooden wheel -- a sort of absurd unicycle, designed for flight...
...dentist who was once a social-policy adviser to New York Governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo. Jeffrey A. runs Ecolink, a New York City-based project that is trying to show the Russians how to use public finance to build an AIDS hospital in Moscow and grain-storage facilities...
...should have stayed home. The President's call for free trade boomeranged in Australia, where farmers were quick to point out that export subsidies for American grain prevent wheat grown Down Under from being sold competitively in the world marketplace...
...victory of skeptical scientific inquiry over tabloid headlines. For 13 years people had been concocting increasingly bizarre explanations for those mysterious circles and lines pressed into the grain fields of southern England. Were they the landing sites of UFOs? No, the crop circles -- or at least some of them -- were the handiwork of a pair of elderly British landscape painters who engineered the elaborate hoax (with string and planks) "for a bit of a laugh...