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Another clue comes from a study of 7,000 trees, sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency. Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee examined 14,000 core samples of the tree trunks. Their findings: beginning in 1960, in eight Eastern states, pitch and shortleaf pines and red spruce started to show narrowing growth rings, a sign of sluggish development. Similar changes have been noted in West Germany's stricken trees...
...beloved Russia. How the author of the magisterial The Gulag Archipelago is faring as a creative writer is unknown. All the works he has published since his deportation from the Soviet Union ten years ago have been either books completed before his exile, like the powerful memoir The Oak and the Calf, or speeches and articles of a political nature, like his sententious Warning to the West. In addition, he has revised many of his earlier books and added long historical sections to his novel August...
Recalling the trauma of emerging from obscurity to celebrity in 1962 when his novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was published in the Soviet Union, Solzhenitsyn wrote in The Oak and the Calf: "For 15 years I had lurked discreetly in the depths - the camps, exile, underground - never showing myself, and now I had risen to the surface and sudden fame." He concluded...
Reagan peered down the cramped basement stairs and remembered that his father Jack, a hefty fellow, had to back down to tend the coal furnace. What might OSHA think, the President wondered. In the bedroom with its pennants and simple oak dresser, Reagan drifted back 60 years. "I read a book about Indians and started to build a tepee in here," he said. "Nelle vetoed that." Reagan rubbed a hand over a huge brass ball on the bedstead in his parents' room and recalled that he had taken one from the original bed frame, put it on a broomstick...
...Deerfield Academy, a Massachusetts prep school, and Princeton University, Unterberg was bred to be an investment banker. In 1931 his father co-founded C.E. Unterberg, Towbin, which merged with L.F. Rothschild in 1977. In an office with a view of the Brooklyn Bridge, Unterberg sits at the same solid-oak desk his father used. Though he is worth more than $10 million, Unterberg and his wife choose to live in the same two-bedroom apartment they bought for $70,000 when they were married 22 years ago. Unterberg marvels at the thought that he helps make multimillionaires of entrepreneurs little...