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...many other ways too, Basra is the anti-Baghdad. It is a sleepy, haphazard sprawl, short on Saddam's favored monumental architecture--and, in fact, on Saddam himself. There are entire streets in Basra without a single depiction of the dictator. Basra's most notable statues are not of Saddam but of such historic figures as the poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and the philologist Al-Khalili bin Ahmed al-Farahidi and of "martyrs" from earlier battles. The most poignant of Iraq's countless memorials is on the corniche along the Shatt al Arab: 100 bronze statues of war heroes...
While the first-years sprawl on the floor of a group study room in the early hours of Saturday morning, roommates Caroline C. Dixon and Joyce Jen, both ’04, sit across the library in adjacent cubicles...
Things were different back in Tomball, Texas, a town of 10,000 where Watkins and her younger sister Julie were raised. Today, with its strip malls and megastores, Tomball is at the outer edge of Houston's suburban sprawl. But when Watkins was growing up, it was a no-stoplight town with an oil derrick on each corner. Her ancestors were among the hardy German immigrants who descended in the mid-1800s and helped establish the Lutheran church her mother Shirley Klein Harrington still attends each Sunday. It seemed as if Watkins either knew or was related to everyone...
Charles opened the pub, called Poet Laureate, in Poundbury, in the southwest of England. He has been involved in developing the area to resemble a traditional village rather than urban sprawl. Hughes does not seem like the most obvious person to inspire bonhomie: his poems were often moody meditations on the English countryside. But with any luck, the establishment will inspire patrons to pen lyric verse somewhere other than the bathroom wall...
...first WatchList since 1997, the Audubon names birds that are imperiled but have not yet been doomed to extinction. The list of 201 species includes the cerulean warbler, which has an Appalachian habitat threatened by mining, and the painted bunting, whose brushland habitat has been gobbled up by sprawl and farming. The decrease in birds isn't good news for humankind, says the Audubon's chief ornithologist, Frank Gill, since birds are indeed the canaries in the global coal mine. "Birds are one of our best indicators of environmental and other problems that can affect humans as well," Gill says...