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...homes to grade schools, to plant millions upon millions of trees. He has persuaded nurseries to donate unsold seedlings they would otherwise have destroyed. He has coaxed the California National Guard ("all those empty trucks and planes sitting around") into helping transport the trees. He once even persuaded Club Med to rescue and care for two exhausted TreePeople volunteers in Senegal who had fallen ill while planting fruit trees in famine-stricken African countries. "I don't know how many bureaucrats have laughed us off over the years," he muses. "Then one person says, 'Maybe we can help you.' That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planting Trees of Life | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...Med School faculty, whose deeds are at times nefarious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Holiday Hit List | 12/16/1988 | See Source »

...postcard design possibilities are innumerable; "Mem Hotel, an Intimate Lodging in the Tradition of the Core Curriculum" and "Wish You Were Here in Our Gothic Paradise" come immediately to mind. Within a few years, maybe it could get put on the Club Med circuit...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: '368 Bedrooms, Good Location' | 12/8/1988 | See Source »

...Med School officials say that members of theconduct committee will not comment on the report...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: Professor Questions Frazier's Scholarship | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

Arcadia was the humanist's Club Med. In it, nothing happens. Shepherds and nymphs, young soldiers and scholars, madonnas, saints and animals loll about in a state of pure being, with no future tense. Arcadia has ruins, sometimes quite grand ones -- as in Claude Lorrain's classical revisions of the pastoral landscape, here represented by the Landscape with Nymph and Satyr Dancing, 1641 -- but Roman architecture does not include a stern call to Roman virtue and gravity. Arcadia's weather is always equable, and its views intimate and mellow. Above all, its location is not too far out of town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Club Med of the Humanists, from Giorgione to Matisse | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

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