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...John River in northern Maine. Among them: lack of money, environmental protests that it would flood a wilderness area and doubts about the benefit it would bring. But one threat to the project was a problem that seemed downright silly: the discovery of a few clumps of a greenish-yellow wild flower called the Furbish lousewort growing near the dam site. Because the plant, named for Botanist Kate Furbish, was not known to exist anywhere else, the dam location could conceivably have been ruled out under the 1973 Endangered Species...
...bridge still spans the sluggish, greenish Mundaca, touching directly on the new Guernica that has replaced the flattened core of the old town, much of it laid out along original streets. The population has grown to some 17,000, reinforced by many non-Basque migrants from other parts of Spain. Unemployment is relatively low: the three silverware factories and the old arms plant are doing acceptable business. Monday -the day the bombs came-is still market day. Basque is spoken widely, and the old folks say that the young are more radical than anyone in their pursuit of Basque rights...
...improve the record of flight safety. Every commercial jet?and every private aircraft that operates at altitudes over 18,000 ft.?is equipped with a "transponder," in effect a miniature radio station that sends out the flight number and altitude. These data appear, neatly boxed, on the greenish radar screen of the controller. As the plane moves through the air, the tiny box proceeds by tiny hops across the screen. A pilot can attract the attention of a controller by making his flight data brighten, as though a tiny supernova had flared on the radar...
...Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, The Ambassadors. When squinted at edge-on, from the right-hand side of the frame, the smear turns into a skull. The illusion is startling: the rest of the painting disappears and the death's-head floats eerily in a greenish-brown blur. What Holbein meant by it is still a matter of debate among historians. Is it a comment on the vanitas of earthly possessions and power, the transience of those grave young faces and minutely delineated objects? A comment on the relativity of painting to the real world? A heraldic...
...your requiem for Red Dye No. 2 [Feb. 2] you say: "Without it, instant chocolate pudding would be greenish, artificially flavored grape soda would look blue," etc. Perhaps banning of all such food-cosmetics would spur a more critical look at the oddly colored subtances that we accept as food...