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...George Jones, unlike contemporaries Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, has never been thought of much as a songwriter. But in his early career he provided much of his own material, as displayed on "Cup of Loneliness," a superb double-CD compilation of his late-Fifties/early-Sixties recordings. The majority of the tracks on the first disc are either written or co-written by Jones, most often with boyhood pal Darrell Edwards. That includes "Mr. Fool," a languid honky-tonker about lost love that is perhaps the supreme recorded example of Jones's exquisite phrasing. "No one can ever call...
...Repeated over the years, the combination of drought, human despoiling and fire can transform wet tropical forest into permanent savanna. So argues Bruce Nelson, an ecologist who has worked since 1979 with inpa, the Brazilian institute for the study of the Amazon. Nelson believes pre-Columbian Indians created the Gran Sabana in Venezuela, a 75,000-sq-km area of veld stretching across the southeast corner of the country, by repeated burning of the forest. As evidence, he points out that unlike neighboring natural grasslands, the Gran Sabana lacks fire-tolerant tree species. In other words, forests burned down hundreds...
WOMAN SUFFRAGE MEMORIAL: Landscape architects Ralph Nelson and Raveevarn Choksombatchai have created a peaceful refuge in St. Paul, Minn. The horizontal bars of the trellised steel wall honor 25 individual suffragettes...
...This is about the people vs. the powers that be, and we'll fight till we drop," said Chuck Hill, 66, the new town manager, one morning. I had invited five people to breakfast; 40 showed up. Thunder Valley Inn owner Anita Nelson, in Norsk regalia, got on the piano and pounded out an anti-Perrier sing-along to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic. And the lesson is this: never underestimate the will or resourcefulness of people who are snowed in half the year...
That's one reason Clinton won the state in 1996 and Nelson is a Senate front runner. It's true that Nelson, 57, has benefited among Jewish "condo commandos" from Gore's choice of Joseph Lieberman as a running mate and from the ticket's emphasis on providing prescription-drug coverage under Medicare. But the former six-term Congressman from Florida's space coast (he once rode the space shuttle) has focused less on national issues than on state concerns such as hurricanes. He admits his clashes with the insurance lobby over exorbitant storm coverage "have definitely reconsolidated" the state...