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This method is widely embraced (and cheaper) in Britain, where some 150 burial grounds offer plain wood coffins, cardboard boxes or a "lovely woollen shroud" in which to bury loved ones in a nature reserve. The U.S. has been slow to follow, but Memorial Ecosystems in South Carolina has buried 18 people on its 33-acre site since 1998 and has presold about 100 plots. Endangered wildflowers will be planted on the graves this fall...
...expanse of bird's egg blue, and then produced nothing for two years. After suffering a heart attack in 1957, he began to work again, starting a series that continued until 1966 and was eventually entitled The Stations of the Cross. The paintings are in black or white on plain canvas, whose natural cream surface is disturbed by flecks of dirt in the weave, stains, splashes or seepage from the oil paint. "Subtlety was so important," says Temkin. "Little drips, 'tears' of paint, scratches," and areas where the color has bled under the masking tape. Against a void, these details...
...Harvard Yard, where groups are permanently assigned offices, the dilemma is not complex booking protocol but plain old scarcity...
...President was John F. Kennedy. The country was Cuba, and the nuclear-capable missiles aimed at the U.S., captured on satellite photos, were plain to see. War in that instance was averted in large measure by the very nakedness of the threat. But it's just that sort of certainty--some incontrovertible evidence apparent to all--for which much of the world clamors while Washington considers a new assault on Iraq...
...Friendly Programming Forum (F.F.P.F.), which sponsors "uplifting" series and also underwrote Gilmore Girls. (Two other F.F.P.F.-funded series will debut later in the season.) And both are gooier than a Krispy Kreme. Rules casts John Ritter as a suburban dad with two teen daughters (a hot one and a plain one), whose problems he solves in the pilot in two maudlin scenes. In one the plain daughter asks him, "Do you think I'm pretty?" and in the other he watches the hot one get thrown over by a guy and has a vision of her as a scared, lost...