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...plant in the order in which it blooms. He records the dates of his sightings and the measurements he has made: "September 24, 1859. The common shrub oak is apparently the most fertile of our oaks. I count two hundred sixty-six acorns on a branch just two feet long." But he has trouble keeping poetry out of his descriptions: "August 23, 1858. Abundantly shedding its downy seeds, wands of white and pink." And sometimes the objective mask slips completely: "July 30, 1860. Beautiful...
Farrell was a star long before any of her dancers were born. She gave more than 2,000 performances with the New York City Ballet before retiring from the stage in 1989, and in the process inspired such ballets as Balanchine's Diamonds, Chaconne and Mozartiana and Robbins' In Memory of... and won international renown as a ballerina of unique virtuosity, at once lyrical and daring. But even though she has staged Balanchine's works for such companies as the Paris Opera Ballet and St. Petersburg's Kirov Ballet, this is the first time she has taken her own group...
...telling us where the hydrogen comes from. It is certainly not out there floating around in large amounts free for the asking. Fuel-cell-powered autos would make for much more efficient use of the ubiquitous fossil fuels, but propulsion free of dependence on these fuels is still a long way off. G. WILLIAM GOWARD Clinton, Conn...
Like many other Democrats, Mark McKinnon for a long time had little use for George W. Bush. A media consultant based in Austin, Texas, McKinnon had toiled for Democratic candidates for years, and once he nearly took a job with Bill Clinton. In 1990 he helped Ann Richards become Texas Governor, and he regarded her successor with partisan suspicion. But McKinnon, 44, was won over after a dinner with Bush in 1997. He went to work producing the TV ads for the Governor's landslide re-election campaign in 1998, and is now running Bush's media campaign for President...
...high-tech firms, both were growing fast--but not fast enough to keep up with the demands of their customers. Personify, founded in San Francisco in 1996, builds software that lets an e-marketer keep track of visitors to its website, what pages they look at, and how long they take to pick out something or go elsewhere. By last summer it had signed up 50 clients that were paying Personify about $6.2 million--and demanding more and different kinds of services than the company's 60 employees could supply. CEO Eileen Gittins decided the best way to get additional...