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...positively goofy. There is a steeply sloping hill with, near the bottom, a tree growing out at a wacky angle. Just above the tree is the farmhouse, which, with its angled porch roof, looks like the profile of a silly face staring in surprise down its triangular nose at the tree. Most recently, after a move out of San Francisco in the mid-'90s, Thiebaud embarked on a series of brightly colored, sharply divided, wildly patterned landscapes of the Sacramento River delta, seen from way up, as though from a plane--for example, River and Farms...
...that we have unlocked one of the greatest mysteries of all time is pure folly. The scenario of absolute, total cataclysmic destruction of everything is irresponsible. For those of us with a faith in a higher power, the story's final paragraph was the ultimate atheistic tweak of the nose: "a disembodied digital intelligence" may survive to note "an unimaginably vast, cold, dark and profoundly lonely place." Did the writer experience a jolt of perverse, sadistic joy in writing these depressing words? Shame on all of you for your pseudoscientific Chicken Littleism. LYNNE PERILLI Southbury, Conn...
...desperately poor living in the fringes of southern India's forests, Veerappan is a near folk hero. In a region with few jobs, he employs them to fell and transport sandalwood trees, pays for people's weddings and, by avoiding capture for decades, has successfully thumbed his nose at legions of corrupt politicians and government officials...
...fast track" passed and though Bush has re-named his request for the same authority, he?s likely to have just as difficult a battle. He?ll need to twist at least 25 arms in the House to get passage - or so goes the conventional wisdom of the nose count at the moment. But that?s something Bush just doesn?t have the muscle to do just...
...average American consumer what she thinks of genetically modified foods, and she?ll probably wrinkle her nose in distaste, asking, "Do we really want to risk eating Frankenfood? Is it worth...