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...reader reflects. But this very good writer can blow softly too, and listen well, and march simple sentences usefully across a flat place. This is not new information to those who read his 1983 best seller, Blue Highways, a marvelously quirky account of a 13,000-mile side-roads motor ramble around the U.S. He is better known by his pen name, William Least Heat- Moon, which comes from the Osage Indian part of his heritage. His father was Heat-Moon, meaning July, the hot month; his older brother Little Heat- % Moon; and he himself last and Least. To avoid...
...What hit us especially hard this week was the inaugural," said Harvard Motor House manager Catalino Rodriguez, refering to the installation of Neil L. Rudenstine as the 26th president of Harvard yesterday...
Harper's Ferry-at 156 Brighton Ave. in Boston. Call 254-9743. Wednesday: Blues Jam with Rick Russell. Thursday: Motor City Rhythm Kings with special guest Blue Heaven. Friday: Tinsley Ellis. Saturday: James Montgomery Blues Band...
...inventor. "We have barely literate families who are using the tapes." To date, 1,200 children -- the oldest of whom is now four -- have "listened" to the recordings. Last year 50 of the youngsters, ranging in age from six months to 34 months, were given standardized language, social and motor-skills tests. Their overall score was 25% above the national norm...
...baidarka changed markedly under the influence of the Russians and then began to disappear with the end of the sea-otter hunts in the last century. After World War II, the Aleuts switched to motor-powered craft. In his efforts to reconstruct the original kayaks, Dyson, based in Bellingham, Wash., relies on early accounts of explorers and sea captains...