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When Charles Darwin stepped off the Beagle and landed in the Galapagos in 1835, he found a world in which time had stood still. As Roger Lewin, an editor of Britain's New Scientist, reveals in Darwin's Forgotten World (Reed; $19.95), the clock is still stopped. Iguanas and other lizards, close relatives of the dinosaurs that have been extinct for millenniums, prowl the islands. Giant tortoises, resembling prehistoric tanks, lurch slowly along their beaches. Lewin, aided by Photographer Sally Anne Thompson, does his usual excellent job of showing what Darwin saw when he landed in this natural...
...expect you to watch most popular shows, but you do not represent most of America," Carswell--who won the Dana Reed Prize for undergraduate writing while at Harvard--added...
...albums out include the Commodores, Earth, Wind and Fire, Steely Dan, The Steve Miller Band, Wings, the Crosby-Nash band, Abba, Dave Mason, Joe Walsh, Steeler's Wheel (now that Gerry Rafferty is big time), Stephen Stills, and Marshall Tucker. Kansashas a two record live album, as doAerosmith, Lou Reed and David Bowie. Live albums are fine when they work--what you lose in technical excellence and musical quality you make up in the excitement and energy of a live performance-but when the record isn't done well (Lou Reed, Aerosmith), it grows boring very and cannot compete...
...minority community is "continually asked to rely on good will instead of a workable, assured process," Stanley Reed, a caucus spokesman, said...
...Russians clearly expected that Reed would be convicted, thereby justifying their charge that the U.S. crushes dissent. Unfortunately, the jury acquitted Reed and his codefendants. The singer himself hailed the verdict as a "courageous and unpopular decision." The Soviet press reported the acquittal but then fell silent-presumably waiting for another victim of American injustice...