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...collection of fruit trees across 61 hectares of fertile Kent countryside - over 2,300 varieties of apple, 550 of pear, 350 of plum and 220 of cherry, as well as more than 320 varieties of bush fruits, nuts and vines. All of Brogdale's fruits have different characteristics of shape, color, flavor, sweetness, fragrance and size. The apple collection, for example, ranges from the tiny Decio, brought to England by the Romans, to the very ugly Knobby Russet and the huge Howgate Wonder, just one of which could fill three apple pies. The plant center Loh and Behold Avant-garde...
What’s more, elections can shape the values and options available within society as a whole. Questions of fairness and justice, the role of government and the choices available to citizens often play out through political processes. To take the judiciary as a case in point, by 2008 seven of the nine justices will be over 70, making it very likely that whoever is president over the next four years will be appointing justices to the Supreme Court, not to mention continuing to appoint justices to the federal appellate and district courts. Thus, you also have a moral...
Still, Harvard is in good shape for the rest of the Ivy season, following Penns 1-0 loss to Yale Saturday. The Quakers and Princeton had been tied for first, but their first league losses now put Dartmouth, the Crimson and the Bulldogs in a three-way tie for first, though Harvard has the most overall wins. The Crimson will look to improve on that overall record tomorrow against a struggling Friars team (0-13) before heading up to Hanover on Sunday in a pivotal game against the Big Green...
DIED. JAMES CHACE, 72, prominent scholar and author of books on American diplomacy; of a heart attack; in Paris. As the author of nine books and the editor of influential foreign policy journals, he helped shape political opinions and American foreign policy in the cold war era. His best-known work, Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World, was considered a crucial revision of postwar history, correcting the impression that Dean Acheson helped precipitate the cold...
...Robert Thurman, professor of Buddhist studies at Columbia University, have long entertained the idea that we inherit a spirituality gene from the person we were in a previous life. Smaller than an ordinary gene, it combines with two larger physical genes we inherit from our parents, and together they shape our physical and spiritual profile. Says Thurman: "The spiritual gene helps establish a general trust in the universe, a sense of openness and generosity." Buddhists, he adds, would find Hamer's possible discovery "amusing...