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...sure if your display is to say thank you to the men and women who are serving our country," one Air Force veteran wrote, "or if it's intended to bring attention to the audacity and stupidity of our elected leaders." One woman pulled into the driveway bearing a photograph of her nephew, killed in action the day before. Another day, a Marine in uniform got out of his car to stand at attention and salute. Another day, the phone rang and Ann heard a woman on the line announce, "My son is one of those flags...
...Macleay Museum's natural history collections took its own kind of intrepidity. She had to climb and re-climb the three flights of stairs to the museum's public gallery; crisscross Sydney to poke through storerooms; mount ladders to fetch preserving jars from high shelves; lie on floors to photograph specimens too fragile to be moved more than a meter from their cases. The sumptuous result, Museum (Cambridge University Press), provides the armchair-dwelling naturalist with a lift, a key to the storerooms, and a magnifying lens...
...types, the specimens used to name and describe new species, as well as examples of creatures now rare (Gilbert's potoroo) or extinct (the skeleton of a Tasmanian tiger). Museum pays tribute to the science, both in Hay's historical essay and in the careful notes on each photograph: "The discrepancy between the information given here and the label on the bird's stand reflects a taxonomic refinement...
...mail from South Africa. “Whereas other courses may simply teach you the material, I found that VES courses often teach you to teach yourself. And that’s a great thing, because having someone breathing down your back telling you exactly how to take a photograph would not be very conducive to creativity.” “I think the idea that there is no security for VES concentrators after college is totally bogus,” he continues. “I know plenty of VES graduates who are doing amazing things with...
...crime in the United States since 1901, when the government sentenced an Army major to 10 years of hard labor for water boarding a Philippino insurgent during the Spanish-American War. It was still a crime during the Vietnam War, when a U.S. soldier was severely punished after a photograph appeared in the Washington Post depicting the soldier waterboarding a North Vietnamese prisoner. There is no reason it should not be a crime...