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...Mohsin Hamid is the author of the novels Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist
...those specimens, captured with a macro lens at 10 or 20 times their size. If the artist on show here is Nature, the close-ups only increase one's awe. How many ways can you design the jaws of a beetle? How many possible patterns are there on a moth's wings? How can there be so many kinds of scales, from butterfly fuzzy to fish-sharp? "It's so finely tuned and so fantastic and so beautiful," says Stacey. "It's better than anyone could design...
When Dr. Dobson isn’t flogging something fragile and defenseless, evidently he’s one of about twelve American evangelical Christians who didn’t cast off their iron principles like a moth-eaten mattress the moment presidential politics began churning...
...Americans are a charitable people. We’re extending our charity in the War on Terror—we’re trying to free people,” she said. “Iraq is like our light in the backyard trying to catch a moth. You can get all the moths in one and then you can nuke them. We’re a charitable people, we could have ended this a long time ago.” HRC President Jeffrey Kwong ’09 said the Lincoln Day celebration was held to honor both Abraham...
...aged Garnett desperately tries to save the disappearing American Chestnut tree, crossing and re-crossing genes. Lusa, a newly widowed outsider, buries her grief in the insect world, stripping the complexities of human emotion down to the single filaments on the wing of a moth. And Deanna, a lean mountain woman, jealously guards a newly arrived coyote family in the forest...