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...Ward knew that he had to get a new job quickly. He found himself unemployed at 5 in the afternoon; by 8 that night, he'd called four people he knew in Ohio who did the same sort of computer work he did, as well as his college buddy Lyell, down in North Carolina. "I'd been using Twitter and Facebook and LinkedIn, but in a very passive, extracurricular way," says Ward. "I knew Lyell was big into the Twitter scene. He immediately began blasting information out to contacts he had, sending them back my way." Over the weekend, Ward...
...through hop fields and farming towns. By the time we push our rafts cautiously into the Collingwood River a few hours later, any fantasy of an easy ride is long gone. A lurid sign warning of the risks of rafting had confronted us as the bus pulled off the Lyell Highway, and our outfits have added to the feeling of uneasy excitement. We clip bright life jackets over a motley combination of bathers, thermal pants and tops, shirts, shorts and wetsuits, before donning helmets, thick socks, gloves and sneakers. We should expect, says Pat, an earnest, highly capable 21-year...
...York City's latest addition to the roster of boutiques selling the old with the new is Lyell, a lovingly designed shop with a stamped tin ceiling and authentic '40s wallpaper. It sells a well-edited collection of vintage garb and shoes alongside co-owner Emma Fletcher's Lyell line of "vintage-inspired clothes." A circa 1960 Kelly green butterfly-print dress by Japanese designer Hanae Mori and a '70s-era black pleated skirt with a red Provencal-print border hang beside Fletcher's new collection of tulip-print, silk-chiffon tie blouses, velvet jackets lined in silk...
...occasionally poetic prose, he shows how Darwin, who was initially timid about advancing his theory, was almost beaten into print by Alfred Russel Wallace, a younger, all but unknown researcher. After discussion, the two agreed to announce their theory simultaneously. Eiseley also outlines Darwin's relationship with Charles Lyell, whose research established modern geology and laid the foundation for his colleague's achievements, but who was himself uneasy about the idea of evolution...
...Jamaica Committee, on the other hand, attracted scientists and philosophers. Charles Darwin was passionately involved, even though his own theory of the survival of the fittest had been bor rowed by the imperialists. Darwin was joined by John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer and Charles Lyell. Thomas Henry Huxley was moved to sardonic eloquence: "I daresay Eyre did all this with the best of motives, and in a heroic vein. But if English law will not declare that heroes have no more right to kill in this fashion than other folk, I shall take an early opportunity of migrating to Texas...