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...wish I could just enjoy it. This newly reignited bull market in stocks is minting millionaires from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Normal folks, who have found it tough to get a decent raise in the stingy 1990s, are benefiting too by using mutual funds to build nest eggs that they hope will fund their kids' college educations and their own retirement. It's all very exciting and, like a pot of Mom's ham bone and string beans, a nourishing meal for anyone with enough courage to sit at the table...
Spend a night in Headwaters and it's easy to see why protesters have flooded into these woods to stop the loggers. Wake before dawn to hear the high-pitched keer of marbled murrelets, the rare, threatened seabirds that nest only in the top of old-growth redwoods. Vast, dark shapes begin to form: the trunks of enormous redwoods and Douglas firs rising as if to hold up the sky. Greens nationwide had hoped for a pact that would have spared some 60,000 acres--all six ancient groves, and the partly logged land between--as habitat for spotted owls...
...family, the happiness which many had hoped that technology would bring. It is a reaction against the trend which began in the 1960s and '70s, when the American family began to disintegrate as technological dreams materialized. Beginning in the 1960s, the family became open to attack as a nest of oppression and pathology. As one example, David Cooper, a psychiatrist of the time, denounced the institution of family as "a secret suicide pact...an ideological conditioning device in any exploitative society." It is therefore no wonder that three decades later, a New York Times op-ed piece would announce that...
Either the Crimson sat on the ball like a mother hen on her nest, or it was shooting at the crease like they were in an old-western gunfight. Harvard's leading scorer, co-captain Mike Eckert, had Virginia's best man on him and did not get very many opportunities...
...without end, but it is not required. Corsage is a self-contained tragicomedy realized in perfectly pitched prose that reveals some of the nobler and most of the baser elements in human nature. In the first of two parallel plots, a pair of practical jokes leads to the Love Nest killings. A second story line relates the daring courtship and tragic marriage of Edward and Katrina, who remarks, "It's quite uncanny what one sets in motion by being oneself." It's a point well taken throughout this tale of unforeseen consequences and fierce individualists...