Word: researchers
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...hundreds of miles on a bed of flowers. Sometimes they came up to my stirrups." Thus a Texas Ranger in 1875 described riding through West Texas. To preserve this natural bounty, in 1982 Lady Bird Johnson gave 60 Texas acres and $125,000 to found the National Wildflower Research Center. Now, with horticulturist Carlton B. Lees, the former First Lady has produced Wildflowers Across America (Abbeville; 309 ! pages; $39.95) and will donate her royalties to help support the center. The botanical handbook is illuminated with photographs of extraordinary clarity and includes instructions on how to make your own meadow, something...
After receiving his Ph.D., Mitchell decided to travel to Sweden to study at the University of Lund, which was founded in the 1680s and is "one of the two big old research universities in Sweden...
Mitchell plans to continue his research during his sabbatical and during this summer in Sweden at the Royal Manuscript Library in Stockholm...
Despite that setback, Mitchell still travels to Scandinavia as often as he can to do field research, the aim of which is to analyze folklore theory and the history of that genre in Northern Europe, he says. "My life is split in two halves, but there is a synergism between them," says Mitchell, who just received tenure from Harvard after eight years of teaching here...
...laid off or uprooted across the country by the restructuring process, and the consumers, who don't get new products at better prices, but the same products at higher prices because a hostilely-bought company has to use all available funds to pay off billions in debt rather than research and marketing. But gee, leveraged buyouts sure make money for the people who organize the deals. If all Ross Johnson's plans had worked out, he stood to make approximately $1 billion within 10 years...