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Harvard made two bids on the 91 acres of land—one for the bulk of the property, and a separate $5 million offer for 1.4 acres that was the only contested piece—to the property’s seller, the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority...
...Lear. In a letter to a friend, Carson called Silent Spring "something I believed in so deeply that there was no other course; nothing that ever happened made me even consider turning back." When the book appeared, industry critics assailed "the hysterical woman," but it became an instant best seller with lasting impact. It spurred the banning of DDT in the U.S., the passage of major environmental laws and eventually a global treaty to phase out 12 pesticides known as "the dirty dozen." Carson died, at 56, of cancer less than two years after the book's publication...
...roll war? The task fell to someone eager to shoulder it: Michael Moore, producer-director of "Bowling for Columbine," a docu-tragicomedy that just about predicted a bogus U.S. war post-9/11. One of the few leftists to park his ample carcass atop the non-fiction best seller list for months on end, Moore was spoiling for this fight. On Thursday, he had posted an open letter to "Governor" Bush that decried his "lying and conniving." Saturday, at the Independent Spirit Awards, he had given a dry run of his Oscar speech, to much cheering...
...Ottos' mammoth catalog and Internet retailing operation traces its lineage back to a postwar shoe factory in HAMBURG. Today the family also owns the majority of furniture seller Crate & Barrel...
FRENCH WINE In Pennsylvania, state representative Stephen Barrar suggested barring sales of French wines. But top New York City wine seller Sherry-Lehmann says French bottles are selling well