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When the Yankees came calling, Mann was at home in Corvallis, Mont., engaging in his favorite hobby, fresh-water fishing, and entertaining designs on joining the family jewelry business...
Michel Kimmelman is not the kind of art critic who spends all his time in museums. He's the kind who finds himself trudging up the side of Mont Ste.-Victoire, the peak in Provence that was Paul Cézanne's perennial motif. Or getting lost in the darkness of the Nevada desert while pondering Michael Heizer's massive earthworks. Or setting out to visit the world's largest collection of light bulbs, only to detour to a museum of hunting decoys, musing all the while on the history of connoisseurship and the evolving notion of the marvelous...
...resort area, for three months and make a chunk of change that will help me overcome inflation, since my pension isn't indexed," Davison says. Still, he needed someplace to live for three months. The solution: he took a position as summer house manager at his ski club at Mont Tremblant, in eastern Canada, where he lives rent-free in exchange for greeting guests at the 43-bed lodge and making sure they follow house rules...
DIED. CHARLES DAVID KEELING, 77, tenacious climate scientist and conservationist whose precise measurements of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over five decades became the undisputed basis for global-warming concerns; of a heart attack; in Hamilton, Mont. Although many had previously assumed that the oceans and plants would absorb all the gas emissions from cars and factories, his so-called Keeling Curve, which since the mid-1950s has charted steady increases in carbon dioxide in the air, clearly linked the pattern to humans' increased consumption of fossil fuels, which release carbon dioxide when burned...
Your Christmas story was splendid. It teaches that we should celebrate the growth of the human spirit, not only in late December but all year. Esther Hamel St. Ignatius, Mont. Reviewing...