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...Eason's Creek, before plunging into the wooded gorge. It took Thomas more than 100 days to pick out the trail, following animal tracks that zigzag through giant ferns across the forest floor and following the natural contours of the land?a practice that reflects his commitment to causing minimum disruption to the environment. Along the way, walkers encounter the Tarkine Falls?a majestic, three-tiered wall of water, partly veiled by fern?and the magical Octopus' Garden, a natural clearing of native grasses, with the gangly arms of thousand-year-old myrtle trees dangling overhead...
...departure. Now, I'm realistic enough to understand that I've been there a long time, that the audience and I have a very strong relationship, so there is going to be a certain ceremonial aspect to it. But I'm trying to keep it to a minimum. And the Dan announcement really didn't trouble...
...this Howard Hughes--this tall, gangling, aging and sick-looking man of 42 whose life and eccentricities have built a lurid legend? ... The private life of Howard Hughes might be described as a complete and carefully protected disorder. He has no interest in clothes, only the barest minimum of interest in food and sleep. He owns five suits, of which the newest is five years old; he is rumpled and disheveled most of the time, gets dressed up only for special occasions. He postpones haircuts as long as possible. "I used to be well-groomed," he says ... Since he sleeps...
...around and bring jobs back to the state," says Richard Costigan, the Governor's legislative secretary. Early in his administration, Schwarzenegger pushed through reforms in the state's workers'-compensation system, whose spiraling costs had been a major complaint of business owners. He also vetoed bills to raise the minimum wage and force smaller companies to provide health insurance for all their employees...
Perhaps even more terrifying are the increasing restrictions on social security at a time when older workers are having trouble finding jobs. For persons born after 1959, the minimum age for full social security benefits has been raised from 65 to 67. “Raising the age of retirement when the economy is losing millions of jobs, and the youth cult is growing, and midlife discrimination is growing, is a refinement of cruelty,” said Gullette...