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Just as important is the growing concern that typical lawns have become almost sterile -- separate from nature rather than a part of it. Nature writer Sara Stein joined the back-to-natives movement after she noticed the disappearance of fireflies and frogs, butterflies and birds from her five-acre property in Pound Ridge, New York. To bring the critters back, she put native grasses among her perennial flowers, planted a woodland garden, resurrected an old pond and created a wildflower meadow. Author of the new book Noah's Garden, Stein decries "the vast, nearly continuous and terribly impoverished ecosystem" consisting...
...began to buy in earnest, first through his friend the American painter William Glackens, and then during his own trips to Paris. His main aesthetic guide in collecting was art critic Leo Stein, Gertrude's brother. His intellectual mentor was the educator John Dewey, whose book Democracy and Education formed his ideas about education for "the masses" through art. After 1918, Barnes' acquisitions became obsessive. His biggest spree was in the early '20s, when he went charging through Paris waving his checkbook (earning the disapproval of Gertrude Stein, who thought him vulgar) and haggling like a mule trader. The postwar...
...This winter especially has been hard for people-usually activities are cancelled when schools are closed," said Army Bern stein, information and referral specialist at the Cambridge Council on Aging...
...addition, four or five Thursdays each semester the House committee sponsors "Stein Clubs," informal gatherings with a keg for those of age and soda for younger house residents, Grayson says...
Even if Farmer gets rich, there will be skeptics who dismiss the idea that complexity is the scientific revolution its proponents claim. The critics, writes physicist and sometime Santa Fe Institute visitor Daniel Stein in the December issue of Physics Today, can rightly ask, "Why is it necessary to force ((these phenomena)) under a single umbrella?" Yet there can be no doubt that investigations of complexity and chaos have at least made things more interesting. Comments Rockefeller University physicist Mitchell Feigenbaum: "Now we see things we didn't notice before, and we ask questions we didn't know...