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...mobilized experts and extremists. It is in part a familiar religious struggle--Earth Firster vs. logger, environmentalist vs. entrepreneur. The argument is also about the dynamics of land and trees and weather and man, about forestry and wildlife habitat and flames and money and reverence and recreation. It is about what has gone wrong (if anything) to allow such a conflagration, about whether the fault lies with nature or with man, and about how to manage the nation's patrimony of forests in the longer term...
...missing out on by being too afraid to come here for a year. Its so easy to compare Oxford to Cambridge, and to be homesick for decent food and familiar newspapers and the Boston Red Sox. But by knowing that I'll be back in my natural habitat so soon, it's just as easy to avoid immersing myself in the culture; for six weeks, it wouldn't be hard to pretend that Oxford is just Harvard with nicer lawns. Being here for a couple of semesters would force me to explore and to adjust...
...degenerate like the portrait of Dorian Gray? We'd be appalled. And none of us really wants our President, Bill Clinton, to change even one iota. No one wants to see him toiling monastically on his memoirs or with a wrench in his hand, building low-income housing for Habitat for Humanity. We expect and desire him, once he's thrown off the trammels of the presidency, to become the great Casanova (at least the great Bubbanova) of the Western world (at least the West Coast), noshing on marzipan as he steeps with a bevy of hot-tub hootchies...
...chat feature so that the up to 25 people at a time who could be connected could exchange messages with me in real time. Since I am by nature a modest exhibitionist, I password-protected Little Al so that only people I invited could see me in my native habitat--staring vacantly at my computer. Maybe eating a doughnut...
...Geochronology Center and co-author of the Science paper, wanderlust may simply have been part of H. erectus' personality. The species evolved some 2 million years ago, and armed with a larger brain and body than its predecessor, H. habilis, "it was probably changing its range and its living habitat almost immediately," says Swisher. H. erectus also developed a more carnivorous appetite and probably moved to follow game. "As soon as they lost this dependency on vegetation," says Alan Walker, a Pennsylvania State University paleoanthropologist, "they changed their lifestyle. Then they...