Word: oakes
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...Robert Hughes for a beautiful and perceptive overview of his native Australia [SUMMER OLYMPICS, Sept. 11]. He may be pleased to know that some of us Americans are not misguided about Australia. Indeed, on our bad days, I wish that Americans would behave more like Australians. KRIS GALLAGHER Oak Park...
...Sharon Coatney is the library media specialist at the Oak Hill School in Overland Park, Kans. She is a past president of the American Association of School Librarians (a division of the American Library Association), and has been a librarian in grade schools at all levels...
...fruit trees squabbling over berries. As night falls, mighty Port Jackson fig trees discharge clouds of flying foxes, while possums patrol urban gardens and clatter across the rooftops. Everywhere, in parks, gardens, at the water's edge, the luxuriant subtropical vegetation-mosses and ferns, cabbage palms, ash and she-oak, ancient angophora forests and a hundred species of gum tree-reminds the resident that humans have a tenuous hold on this land...
...they were not exposed to couple relationships where the partners worked out their differences satisfactorily, modern couples do not find it easy to struggle through the difficult times, or think of getting some help." Marcia and Russ did seek help, from Joe Bavonese of the Relationship Center in Royal Oak, Mich., and the pair emerged stronger. "We're newlyweds again!" Marcia crows. Now, more than when they took their vows, she believes in forever...
Near the town of Coldwater in Tate County, Miss., where the kudzu hills rise gently from the Delta flatlands in the west, there's a gravel track that runs through stands of scrub oak and pine to reach a dusty clearing: two single-wide trailers, a small vegetable patch, a bluetick hound sleeping in the lee of a faded green Lincoln. Music is in the air--the fierce, hypnotic boogie known as hill-country blues--because this is the headquarters of the North Mississippi Allstars...