Word: royalities
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...nature -? the brutally Darwinian animal world, the intense reality of the English countryside -? and a mournfully steady eye for detail first praised by his mentor T.S. Eliot. He was not a natural choice for poet laureate, whose official duties include celebrating the queen?s birthday and commemorating other royal occasions. Many feared that like Wordsworth, one of his predecessors in the role, his talent and love of nature would be stifled. But Hughes sparkled. His 1997 offering, "Tales of Ovid," won the Whitbread Book of the Year award -? a top literary prize -? for what the judges called its "greatness...
...this oceanic marvel lives a life of ritualized civility in the South of France. Tea at four (or "I'm afraid I grow fractious"), whiskey at six. An interview remains politely impersonal. He has sailed; he studied medicine; he sees great value in the rigorous, hierarchical politeness of the Royal Navy in Aubrey's time. But he admits that he has forgotten some details of his novels 10 or 15 books ago and shares some uncertainties about those to come. Not long ago he was at work on Chapter 3 of the untitled 20th novel, and he remarked, rather direly...
...YORK: They may not be able to bang out the works of Shakespeare on the old Royal just yet, but primates are getting pretty good at math. A couple of rhesus monkeys at Columbia University have perfected the art of counting ?- up to nine, at least -? according to a study published Friday in the journal Science. "They share with humans the ability to master simple arithmetic on at least the level of a two-year-old child," said researcher Elizabeth Brannon...
...Cuban team discovered the nearly intact remains of a Taino dwelling buried in the muck. It has since located the foundation of as many as 40 structures, most likely a combination of communal buildings, outbuildings and single-family houses. The site is so extensive, says David Pendergast of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, that "there's no doubt that a regional chief would have been based there. It may have been one of the Taino's major centers...
...also been president of the International Economic Association, the Indian Economic Association, the American Economic Association and the Econometric Society. He was also awarded an honorary vice presidency by the Royal Economic Society...