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...some of which are conventionally framed like drawings, while others, double-sided, hang from the ceiling) begins with the paper itself, its density, translucency and fibrousness, the way it hardens into feathery blots or accidental-looking rags that preserve the liquid slurry as a shrunken form, like a dried leaf. Shields has a Japanese attitude toward paper: he likes it to speak for itself, and his approach is a matter of subtle interventions rather than brusque changes. The "drawing"-in fact stitching, run on the sewing machine in brisk swoops and zigzag flurries of contrasting thread-looks both improvised...
Ecologists Gordon Orians and David Rhoades believe they discovered arboreal conversations while studying the depredations of western tent caterpillars and fall webworms on Sitka willows. As expected, the researchers found that the leaf chemistry of victimized trees changed to make them less palatable and even harmful to bugs. Curiously, the same natural defense was also invoked by nearby trees not under attack...
Orians and Rhoades speculate that stricken trees release chemical signals called pheromones (more commonly known as insect sex lures). Wafted through the air, these vapors apparently stimulate neighboring undamaged trees, which also alter their leaf chemistry in order to become less tasty to voracious bugs...
...Treasury began minting 1-oz. and ½-oz. gold medallions in 1980 to compete with popular foreign coins, particularly the South African Krugerrand and the Canadian Maple Leaf. Since then American goldbugs have bought only 603,000 oz. of U.S. medallions, compared with at least 6 million oz. of Krugerrand and Maple Leaf coins...
...problem, apparently, has been the ponderous Postal Service. Buyers had to wait as long as two months to receive their gold in the mail. In contrast, dealers sell the Krugerrand and Maple Leaf over the counter for cash or certified checks...