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...Anaclea taludensis flowers, defiers of the laws of perspective -they shrink as the visitor approaches, then expand as he withdraws. The Giraluna germinates from a point somewhere above the ground; its roots grow down toward but never into the earth. The Artisia is "nonorganic and very likely of human origin." This plant, covered with whirligigs, curlicues and other designs associated with 18th century Baroque, bears a strong resemblance to the productions of certain modern artists. Artisia Calderii recalls the work of the late American sculptor Alexander Calder; Artisia Arpii shows an amazing similarity to the collages of Jean...
...rescuer," Henry Morton Stanley, to trace the Congo from its source to its mouth. In 1874 the onetime journalist, whose "discovery" of the supposedly lost Livingstone had made him an international celebrity, set out from England on a journey to resolve the riddle of the Nile's origin and to determine if the Lualaba, which Livingstone had believed to be a branch of the Nile, was really the upper Congo...
...Their origin notwithstanding, the pair did not prompt McCurdy to romanticize about their talent. That quality was in ample abundance yesterday at Franklin Park, where the two Irish imports ran to a dead heat, a three-way tie for first place with teammate Danny Dillon. All three were clocked at 24:01, a stiff pace for this early in the season. Providence's top three sweep, together with the capture of places six, seven and ten, enabled it to overpower UMass, its closest competition, and throttle Harvard. The first Harvard runner to finish the race was Ed Sheehan (no relation...
...succeeds here because his image strikes deep chords. He is big and strong and white, like the much-admired and envied Europeans. He is generous and fair and helps the weak, like the government in the colonial era. He has magical powers and is solitary and of mysterious origin, so he may well be really a returned ancestor...
...paper states that a "just and durable peace in the Middle East" depends on the fulfillment of two basic principles: 1) Israel must withdraw from Arab territories occupied during the 1967 war, including East Jerusalem, and 2) the Palestinians have a right to return to their place of origin, to self-determination, and to establish an independent state. The paper rejects Israel's creation of new settlements on the West Bank and calls on all countries to halt emigration of their citizens to "occupied Palestinian and Arab territories." Significantly, the document distinguishes between territory occupied after...