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When I was in third grade at the New Lincoln School in Manhattan, a clever sex education teacher showed my class a movie on drugs. In the style of classics like Reefer Madness, the film showed how different drugs were produced, how people could ingest them, and their extremely nasty side effects. Heroin was fashionable at the time, so glistening hypodermics and needle-tracked arms were prominently featured, along with short biographies of celebrities who had died of overdoses. Although the effect of such films on children today has probably been greatly diffused by constant exposure to drugs...
...answer is to adapt the way we practice wildlife and land conservation to climate change. There's a term for this - adaptive management - and last week the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a Cambridge-based think tank, brought together conservation leaders from around the U.S. to discuss how to cope with warming. Led by James Levitt, the director of the program on conservation innovation at Harvard Forest, dozens of executives from groups like the National Wildlife Federation and the Nature Conservancy, along with a few representatives from the government, tried to work out a new framework for the biggest challenge...
...Evelyn Lincoln, Kennedy’s personal secretary, told The Times that the president had asked in July 1962 for “secret recording equipment” to be set up in the Cabinet Room and the Oval Office. “There was no sinister motive,” Lincoln told the newspaper...
According to Lincoln, Kennedy wanted to have recorded conversations to help him write his. But the existence of the tapes was not revealed until 1973, about ten years after the president’s assassination...
...sold French fries to fast-food chains, but the Idaho native also invested in cattle, fertilizer plants and timber--not to mention computer-chip pioneer Micron Technology. The oldest billionaire in the world last year, according to Forbes, Simplot remained ambitious--and proud--driving around Boise in a white Lincoln Town Car with mr. spud vanity plates...