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...Thoreau, Class of 1837, or that of John Muir (founder of the Sierra Club in 1892) or Rachel Carson, the environmental movement in this country is founded on a belief in the link between all human beings and their natural environment. Some of these links, as Carson sought to inform us, are of a direct, "scientific" nature. The chemicals that enter into and damage our environments have similar consequences on our bodies; it makes sense then to pollute less. Some of these relationships are more spiritual or metaphysical, as Muir or Thoreau would have argued. Yet for all three...
...Know thyself Don't let the Washington Post inform the world that you once regurgitated on your classics professor--get the bad news out before Bob Woodward does. Spin it your way. "When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible...
Part of the panel's function is simply to inform people that slavery is ongoing, Williams said. "Many of us are under the understanding that slavery ended in 1865 with the Emancipation Proclamation" he said...
...saying in a letter last October that I am "a sheer delight." He then added, "Can we meet, and can you just let me hang out and listen and observe?" For those of you who have never got a mash note from a Broadway star, let me inform you that Goulet letters are not sent through the U.S. mail but are inserted into FedEx envelopes. Somebody sold more Man of La Mancha albums than we thought...
...which the end was exactly what was intended at the beginning. In the mid-19th century, William Perkin sought a way to make artificial quinine out of coal tar and ended up with the first aniline dye. Alexander Graham Bell thought the telephone would be used only to inform people of the arrival of telegrams. Alessandro Volta designed a eudiometer for exploding bad-smelling gases with electricity. It ended up as the spark plug. A 1983 interuniversity computer network, intended as an academic exchange, ended up as www.everything...