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...great English naturalist Charles Darwin made "survival of the fittest" part of the language. He also gave his name to the remote capital of Australia's tropical Northern Territory, and all too often the city of Darwin has been subjected to the harsh and literal testing of that phrase. In 1897, a cyclone leveled the cliff-perched port town, killing 28 of its residents. In 1937, it was flattened by another tropical storm. Five years later, Japanese Commander Mitsuo Fuchida, who led the attack on Pearl Harbor, blasted the city with 188 bombers, killing 243 people and wounding...
...Sierras, his close-up studies of wood, rock and plants and sometimes people have been repeatedly and justly praised. The purity, directness and technical excellence of his pictures attest to Adams' belief that "a photograph is made, not taken." Yet there is also a touch of the mystic naturalist in Adams when he notes, "Sometimes, I think, I do get to places just when God is ready to have somebody click the shutter...
...residents along the Carolina coast last fall, it looked like an invasion of monsters from the deep. Dozens of pilot whales swam ashore and died on the beaches at Kiawah Island, S.C., and Cape Lookout, N.C. Mentioned by the Roman naturalist Pliny, such suicidal mass strandings of the most intelligent of marine animals have been a persistent puzzle. Now, after completing autopsies on the doomed whales, scientists think that they have the answer...
...redoubtable Standard Times, has put together a marvelous book about everything that went into the financing, building and provisioning of whaling ships, the men who sailed and lost them, the "overweening pursuit of wealth" that drove them to riches and ruin. Allen writes poetically but with a naturalist's restraint about the climate, flora and fauna of the forbidding, fickle northwest corner of Alaska. As few writers have, he describes with nose-to-nose empathy its native Eskimos, an incredibly robust and good-natured people inhabiting one of earth's coldest hells...
HARVARD ALSO HAS a responsibility to its donors. Ernest G. Stillman '08, who bequeathed the land to the University, was an avid naturalist who intended his gift to be used for forestry research. It is not unreasonable to believe that he would have objected strenuously to the sale of his land--as have many of his descendants--to a utility bent on using it with transparent disregard for the intricacies of the region's ecology...