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...draped with yellow-tinged leaves. The contrast is deliberate, an advertisement for the wares Odiambo sells from his roadside supply shop in western Kenya. While the shopkeeper's robust plots were planted with commercial seed and carefully nurtured with inorganic fertilizer, his sickly specimens are the result of seeds sown in the bare ground. "We wanted to have a control plot, to show the difference," he says...
...Brother watching? A Department of Homeland Security program calls for the installation of around 180 surveillance cameras in the Boston metropolitan area, including eight in Cambridge—a prospect that has sown confusion and concern on the Cambridge City Council. In response, the Cambridge Civic Unity Committee, chaired by City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker, will be holding a meeting on Jan. 22 to discuss the surveillance program and to address community concerns. “The fact that [the cameras] were installed is news to me, and to most of my colleagues,” Decker said...
...knees and began to pray.Visions of heavenly grace intermingled in his great brain with images of Roxanna. What a garden of delights they had begun to cultivate together, between the two of them! In what a diversity of places had the seeds of their mutual salvation been sown: in the bed, in the carriage, at the window, behind the curtains, under the bed, on the floor next to the bed...he could hardly remember the particulars anymore. Roxanna’s fingers, trailing delicately through his matted locks, were like tongues of divine fire; and her tongue, wherever it landed...
...long as Harvard refrains from forcing alternatives to the Corner’s future attractions. The hallmark of the new changes to the plan for Allston is a focus on sustainability. Along with these beneficial green spaces, the new plans even call for a garden and orchard to be sown on the Allston property. While the size and food output of these projects may be still in the works, this array of sustainable symbols is a great way to set an example for Allston and beyond. Harvard does well in proposing these changes following its sustainability week, showing...
...Your issue was truly impressive in its global coverage, and the ideas it canvassed have not only great significance for humanity but huge economic potential [Oct. 6]. It should be distributed to all the world's secondary schools, for that is where the seeds of future action will be sown. Gordon Rabey, WELLINGTON...