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...enthusiastic guide who leavens his tours with puns and one-liners. Sample: "Have you heard about the tree that didn't know whether it was a son of a birch or a son of a beech?" But he is serious about spreading the word that trees can repair the land, and has even written and published a book, The New Forest, describing his experiences. The book is dedicated to the spirit of Johnny Appleseed, who "planted while others palavered." Those words could just as easily describe Turk Jones...
Seymour Slive, professor of Fine Arts explained Monday that the space is needed for staff members who now have offices in Allston Burr Hall, which will be closed for repair work after January...
...their independence by skillfully accommodating their policies to whatever foreign nation wielded the most power in Southeast Asia (see THE WORLD). Suggested one U.S. Government foreign policy analyst: "It is better for them to be an aggrieved party." As such, the Thais could placate the Cambodians and then quietly repair relations with the Americans...
...throated roar of a motorcycle. Many middle-aged men take up cycling -as Hess did in 1965. Mostly what they get is kidney trouble, pavement burns and a chance to act out a few fantasies. As Hess tells it in Dear America, he got secular religion. The need to repair the machines he wrecked led him to welding and, finally, to working as a welder of trucks and construction equipment. "It was there, under trucks, inside buckets, working hard," he writes, "that I faced the final contradictions, the ones that ended any hope of anything in my life ever being...
...example, the Food and Drug Administration, which also has jurisdiction over radiation-emitting products, recently ordered the recall of 400,000 Panasonic color-television sets, almost 280,000 of which were in the hands of consumers. The FDA suspected the sets of being radiation hazards. To locate and repair the sets could cost Panasonic's Japanese owner, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., about $11 million, which is equal to Panasonic's U.S. profits for the past several years...