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...fascinating, beautifully drawn progression of Midwestern farmscapes showing the yearly building and slow consumption of an enormous, barn-sized haystack. Hay in a big field is cut with a tractor and sickle bar, then raked into windrows and stacked with a hydraulic lift and pitchforks. The great hay pile then serves as both food and shelter, first for cattle, then for pigs, through the long winter. There's no preaching, but important lessons are learned about work and weather, and how life might seem in the vast, busy emptiness of a prairie farm...
...pile of legal and diplomatic documents the three Presidents signed add up to an extremely complex new design for Bosnia that will be hard to construct and easy to paralyze. It turns the country into a republic containing two "entities." American officials insist this is not a partition and that Bosnia is a unified state, but other observers, including Bosnians, are not so sure. The Bosnian Serb holdings, the Republika Srpska, total 49% of the land. The other entity is a federation of Muslims-- called Bosniacs in the documents--and Bosnian Croats. All citizens will be free to travel...
...fact, some of prehistory's worst mass extinctions took place during the Cambrian itself, and they probably occurred for no obvious reason. Rather, just as the tiniest touch can cause a steeply angled sand pile to slide, so may a small evolutionary advance that gives one species a temporary advantage over another be enough to bring down an entire ecosystem. "These patterns of speciations and extinctions, avalanching across ecosystems and time," warns Kauffman, are to be found in every chaotic system - human and biological. "We are all part of the same pageant," as he puts it. Thus, even in this...
...Monday night the pile got just a little bit deeper as John F. Kennedy Jr. visited Winthrop House in an effort to promote his magazine, George. Acting in the typical Kennedy tradition of myth-making. JFK Jr. portrayed George as an influential political magazine that is a must-read for those interested in politics. Yet when examined carefully, George resembles People much more than it does the National Review...
According to Blais, when he took over as treasurer, the records of the council's finances--a pile of receipts and bank statements--were handed to him in an empty Corona beer...