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Renaldo Duval was luckier -- at least in the beginning. Financing his escape by selling a small house and a plot of land on the edge of the village, he established for himself a nest egg of 3,000 Haitian gourdes (about $100). Sent back in March, he bought a place on another boat. When he was returned a second time, he still had enough cash for yet another try. But to no avail. Broke, Duval wanders aimlessly around the village, destitute and bitter. "It would have been better for them to kill me there than to force me back here...
...mass hatred and mass worship." To have lived in Poland through the successive waves of its disastrous history since 1939 -- right up to the post-Soviet present when, she wrote in 1990, "hand-to-hand-fighting has begun, each against each, zealously trying to drag everything toward a private nest" -- such a background cannot help giving a special character to a sculptor's use of the "heroic" figure, to her ideas on the body's status as a container of esthetic feeling, to her sense of the monumental. How can you imagine a monument in a culture that has been...
...Once in the cult, Davidians surrendered all the material means of personal independence, like money and belongings, while Koresh seemed to have unlimited funds, much of the money apparently from his followers' nest eggs. The grounds around the compound were littered with old automobiles that the faithful cannibalized for parts to keep their clunkers running while Koresh drove a black Camaro muscle...
...when Jack Horner happened upon 14 rocky nests in an eastern Montana excavation that was later dubbed Egg Mountain, another dinosaur myth bit the dust. The egg-filled nests belonged to hadrosaurs -- duck-billed dinosaurs -- which had apparently built vast rookeries much the way social birds like penguins do. Though dinosaurs were never thought to be especially cuddly or caring, these creatures clearly nurtured their young, probably feeding them by mouth like baby birds until they were strong enough to leave the nest. Horner and his colleagues named the species Maiasaura -- Greek for "Good Mother Lizard...
Whatever the reason, says Horner, "we have pretty good evidence that all duck-billed dinosaurs were nest-bound and nurturing. We also see a lot of herding behavior among hadrosaurs as well as ceratopsians," a group that includes Triceratops. In fact, claims Horner, "most of the herbivores cared for their young...