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...hardwoods. "When it is cleared, you'll have the full effect of the amphitheater," he says, sweeping his hand across the long ridge of limestone that leads to the waterfall. "I'm making the case for my cedar-eradication project," he says, pointing out yet another patch of the annoyance long after he needs to make the case...
...below. Bush has torched his conifer hackings all over the ranch, leaving black burn circles that look as if there's been fireworks testing. Once the brush is gone, he's got plans: wildflowers over there and maybe a feeder to attract some wildlife. Laura is growing a patch of native grasses. Bush is quick to point out, though, that more than enough cedar has been left for the golden-cheek warbler and the black-capped vireo, which use its bark for their nests...
...beware of humor. As Levine explains, e-mail lacks audio and visual cues, so comments that are meant to be funny are often read the wrong way. His warning might have helped when No. 9 and I got into a minor online dispute and No. 5 stepped in to patch things up. "Thanks, Mr. Kissinger," I wrote, assuming he would be amused. He was not. "Perhaps you don't know my special loathing for Kissinger," he wrote back in a long, angry missive. The ensuing chill lasted weeks...
Sometimes, the randomly changing attributes overlapped--both patches turning red at the same instant for example--which made following along a little tricky. But 90 percent of the time, subjects could identify which patch was which at the end of the experiment...
...findings mirror those claimed by Duncan. When subjects were asked to note jumps in one characteristic of each patch, forcing them to pay attention to both patches, they were unable to do so accurately. But when asked to note two jumps for a single patch, the subjects were able to do so with great accuracy...