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...From his roost at MIT, he preaches about software, business, intellectual property, law and life. His software goals are large and 10 years ago seemed unattainable. He opened his original manifesto with the line, "GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to every...
Essentially docile, bats play a vital role in maintaining ecological balance. For one thing, they protect crops from marauding insects. The 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats that roost in Bracken Cave near San Antonio, Texas, from spring to fall consume 250 tons of insects every night as they swarm to altitudes of 10,000 ft. Farmers are not the only ones who benefit. A single little brown bat can speedily clear a suburban backyard of pesky mosquitoes, lapping up 600 bugs an hour...
...photograph would become the enduring image of our failure in Vietnam. But it worked strongly on me, and still does: that wide-open sky waiting above the helicopter like freedom itself; the dark line of people bearing their hopes of deliverance; the apparent fragility of the craft, its precarious roost, the spindliness of the rotors on which all these hopes depend; and most eloquent, the figure of the crew chief silhouetted against the empty sky, pulling some fearful soul from one life into another, as we had set out to do by other means so many years before...
Last week a federal prosecutor in Minnesota suggested that it could not -- that, in the words of one little girl's father, chickens will come home to + roost, that violence must beget violence, that the world is a tragedy in a continuous loop. Minneapolis U.S. Attorney David Lillehaug charged on Thursday that Qubilah Shabazz, 34, had for seven months negotiated with a hit man for a murder and had in fact moved to Minnesota to make a down payment on the crime. Her alleged target: Louis Farrakhan, the bitter rival of her father Malcolm X, who was murdered...
...Capitol set opens with Powell's first date as a leader, recorded on Roost in 1947, kicking off with a sprung version of I'll Remember April that betrays none of Powell's troubles. It bursts with giddy invention that could have tipped the song into anarchy if Powell hadn't been able to restrain his own abandon. He was so good and so graceful, he could realize his inspirations with tremendously controlled dexterity. The earliest of the Verve recordings are from 1949, and they end with a 1955 session in which Powell, his bass player and drummer close...