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...scientists--trying to protect the dinosaurs from a group of rapacious hunters--are undercut by some laughably inane fieldwork. They take close-up photos of the beasts with incredibly noisy cameras that are bound to startle any dino into a frenzy; they kidnap a T. rex baby to mend its leg while Big Mama prowls closer. It's knaves vs. fools in the Jurassic jungle...
Race is indeed an area in which just talking can accomplish something. Civil rights leaders say Clinton's greatest achievement on race was the 1995 affirmative-action speech in which he vowed to "mend it, not end it," articulating a deft consensus where it seemed none was possible. But when toughness is called for, the President has more often than not disappointed them. "On this issue he does not come into the bully pulpit with much moral authority," complains black author and activist Roger Wilkins...
...this day, I will mend a quarrel, search for a forgotten friend, fight for a principle, show gratitude to God and tell someone 'I love you,' again and again and again," the crowd recited...
Plainness ran deeper than taste. It sometimes grew out of religious conviction--formal severity was built into the Puritan creed, for instance. But it also sprang from the social necessities of American life: the need to make and mend things for oneself, to fit and adapt to local materials. And it acquired a political dimension as metaphor...
...then passed out. Foster alerted state police, who broke in and saved Dorris' life. After that, the author checked into a psychiatric facility. For a brief while, his friend Coughlin, who spoke to him many times a day, felt hopeful that Dorris was on the mend. He even talked excitedly about a new children's book he had started to write. Then on Thursday, April 10, he left the facility on a pass. He rented a car and registered at a motel under a false name and address. His body was discovered by police after the facility registered a missing...