Word: pond
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Loews Fresh Pond. Fresh Pond Plaza. 661-2900. On Thursday, Dec. 2. "A Perfect World" at 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 and 10 p.m. "Mrs. Doubtfire" at 11:35 a.m., 12:40, 2:10, 3:25, 4:55, 6, 7:35, 8:35 and 10:15 p.m. "We're Back" at 11:10 a.m., 1, 3:10, 5:05, 6:50 and 8:50 p.m. "The Nutcracker" at 11:50 a.m., 2:25, 4:45, and 7 p.m. "Addams Family Values...
...Multicultural America, some Indian sages had forecast the coming of white-skinned aliens. On his deathbed, a chief of New England's Wampanoag tribe said that strange white people would come to crowd out the Indians. As a sign, a great white whale would rise out of the witch pond. The night he died, the whale rose, just as he had predicted. Similar prophecies about predatory whites can be found in the lore of Virginia's Powhatans and the Ojibwa of Minnesota...
Half an hour from Cambridge is Walden Pond. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau '37 was the only human who knew its shores intimately; now, thousands of swimmers and small-time fishermen are acquainted with the rules (no inflatables) and price of admission (cash only; no checks...
...words is the preservation of Walden. Without Thoreau's legacy, the pond, which is more than a hundred feet deep in parts, would have docks, motorboats, and inflatables. Walden Woods would be a woods only in name; no benefits would be staged to save it from developers...
...such assessment may have prompted Senator Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, to write a surprising letter to Crown Butte's management. Calling himself a friend of mining, he nevertheless said he was unwilling to gamble a national treasure -- Yellowstone -- against short-term economic gain. Damage from a failed tailings pond, warned Baucus, could be "cataclysmic" and "irreversible." He didn't say what should be done with the tailings -- truck convoys to NIMBY ("not in my backyard") land are a possibility -- but if an on-the-mountain tailings pond is necessary, mine plans "should be abandoned...