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What was it like interviewing the relatives and colleagues of some of these inventors? I talked to the daughter of John Weilgart, who made a "space language" of symbols that he supposedly got from aliens. That was painful in the sense that he devoted his life to this project and he was only ever mocked for it. I didn't want to necessarily contribute to the mocking, so I tried to understand the motivations and the struggle that a person like that would go through...
...shade of green. For them, the fact that African farming hasn't changed in over a century is a feature, not a bug. It provides an opportunity to replace industrial farming with organic practices that can be just as productive, but far more sustainable. At the St. Jude Family project in southern Uganda, double-decker animal pens open onto corn, cabbage, bananas and crawling green beans. The earth is contoured to reduce runoff and erosion. Spring onions serve as natural pest control. Legumes fix nitrogen to the soil. Cow manure produces biogas for the farm's stove. Farm owner Josephine...
There is time. Yet this scholar-Pope knows that history's long rhythms also dictate that a great project is not completed or fulfilled in a year, decade or even quarter-century. Some of Benedict's would-be defenders suggest that once he has made his visit to the Jewish homeland, the Pope is right to "move on." He knows better: like any other vital priority his church takes into its stewardship, this one too must be heeded and tended, not just now but for the (very) long haul...
Some local taxpayers are livid at Hardin officials. "It's been a complete fiasco since the beginning," says Mike Carpata, a forester with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, as he shopped at Lammers Trading Post in Hardin's downtown. But others remain supportive of the project. The store's fourth-generation owner, George Lammers, notes that after subtropical Gitmo, the dry, wintry high plains "would be torture for some of those boys." He adds, "I think it would be great for all the law-enforcement people to be here. It would help our housing market. Our city fathers wanted...
Quadlings should not have to choose between working on a group project with friends who live on the River and coming home safely, or running a quality student group event and coming home safely, or just working late in Lamont and coming home safely. The shuttle cuts have the potential to not only restrict these pursuits, but also to increase the incidence of students feeling pressured to stay in others’ rooms or being unable to leave a situation that makes them uncomfortable...