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Environmental horticulturists have long been stumped by the strange behavior of trees in groups. Why do trees on the perimeter of a forest have stocky, tapering trunks, while those in the interior are tall and slender and are easily toppled by wind after the tough outer trees have been felled either by nature or man? P. Landreth Neel and Richard Harris, environmental horticulturists working at the University of California at Davis, have come up with the most convincing answer so far. Their theory: perimeter trees that are fully exposed to the wind and are shaken by it-or any tree...
...group celebrated those slender but seductive values more lovingly than the Beach Boys. Theirs was a soft, euphonious music-intricate, warm layers of bell-like harmonies over calm, steady rock beats, all of it intended to evoke the rhythm of the ocean. When it came to the message, the Boys never let content interfere with contentment. "You can always write about social causes, but who gives a damn?" No. 1 Beach Boy Brian Wilson asked at the time. "I like to write about something these kids feel is their whole world." In song after song-Little Deuce Coupe, Car Crazy...
...surgeon also vented his resentment of South African physicians who will not refer patients for transplants because the chance of success is so slender. He acknowledged that organ rejection by the body was still an obstacle, but argued that "because a problem is not completely solved" is no reason to abandon a procedure. Barnard compared a patient doomed to die of heart disease with a man on the scaffold, the noose already around his neck: "Now you say to him, we won't hang you. You can stand 200 yards away...
...elastic conscience. We see him first as a slim, fey, slightly bland youth of 18, living a sheltered life surrounded by tutors and priests. He progresses through the series like a prefab castle, adding pounds and psychological dimensions as if they were rooms. By the final segment, the slender, shy youth has become a man swathed in fat, so overbearing and overburdened that he can barely rise from his chair-much less to his earlier level of greatness. Michell won England's equivalent of the Emmy for his fascinating character study of the complex king...
Today, seven years later, the Revitalization Corps remains alive and well, headquartered in Hartford's grimy northside ghetto, and has spread to eight other cities. On last year's slender $50,000 annual budget, almost all raised through contributions, its programs are building people-to-people "bridges" on the premise that racial problems can be solved only if individuals get to know one another in relaxed ways...