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...panel's director, denounces Simon's article as "full of factual errors, distortions, misrepresentations and falsehoods." Bill Long, director of the State Department's Office of Food and Natural Resources and a participant in the study, points out that the report focused on a 20-year span, while Simon relies on statistics that cover periods ranging from four to 100 years to reach his conclusions. More important, Simon almost always cites figures only for the U.S., rather than for the entire world. Says one federal official: "Cleaner air and water in this country...
...mission. Moreover, unlike the great salon artists who went before him, Courbet was capable of lavishing enormous trouble on a work doomed to unsalability, since it had no comprehensible message: this was his masterpiece, The Studio of the Artist, 1855, which he subtitled "a real allegory, setting forth a span of seven years of my artistic life." But although he changed the history of art, his effect on the history of social stress was negligible. The struggles between left and right in France up to Courbet's death in 1877 would have turned out very much the same whether...
Maine is ranked fourth in the ECAC, so a win tonight will mean that in a two-week span Harvard will have beaten three of the top four teams (Northeastern and B.C. being the others). Team number three is Clarkson, and the Crimson lost a tough, 3-2 decision to the Golden Knights on Jan. 31. This team has always played better against the best...
...against viral diseases. Fuller developed the geodesic dome after he discarded the square and turned to the triangle as the most stable figure in nature. His domes, built from a collection of triangles, enclose, per pound of material, 30 times the unobstructed interior space of any known alternative clear-span engineering system...
Little more is known about creative people. They tend to be independent and often span several fields. They are challenged by irregularity and can tolerate perplexity. But ultimately--beyond having the fresh eye and the curious mind--the creative person must be courageous. He must be unafraid to take what Calvin calls "the step beyond...