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...relations with nature, we've been playing a deadly game of cowboys and Indians. We all started as Indians. Many primitive cultures -- and the indigenous peoples still clinging today to their pockets of underdevelopment -- regarded the earth and all its creatures as alive. Nature was a whistling wind tunnel of spirits. With the rise of a scientific, clockwork cosmos and of missionary Christianity, with its message of man's dominion and relentless animus against paganism, nature was metaphorically transformed. It became dead meat...
...like a breeze through a screened porch. On the biological level, the world is a seamless continuum of energy and information passing back and forth, a vast complicated network of exchange. Speech, food, posture, infection, respiration, scent are but a few pathways of communication. Most of those circuits are still a mystery, a labyrinth we have barely begun to acknowledge or explore...
What Mazzafro did was offer Michael large doses of love and patience. That formula had already worked wonders with Tuan, now 14, a Vietnamese refugee who had come to Mazzafro four months earlier, speaking no English and still toting the cardboard box that had been his bed at a relocation center in Malaysia. Now he's an honors student at the local junior high, while Michael has become a computer whiz with his sights set on Princeton. Meanwhile, Joe Mazzafro is applying his methods to Brandon, 9, his third adopted son, who tumbled through nine foster homes in his first...
...drug abuse probably did not extend to crack. Even so, when Rick and Mary Hibbard brought him into their home in Long Beach, Calif., he was a nine-month-old veteran of pneumonia, bronchitis and asthma, so white from anemia he was "almost iridescent," recalls Rick. Now eight, Jimmy still has trouble with some motor skills. But he has demonstrated above-average reading ability...
...ratified, provides for a ceiling of 150 kilotons on underground nuclear blasts -- a limit that both nations currently observe. Baker and Shevardnadze agreed in principle on verification procedures that should allow the treaty to be completed at next year's summit. Yet nuclear testing will remain contentious: the Soviets still want a comprehensive ban on all underground blasts; the U.S. insists that nuclear weapons must continue to be tested for safety and reliability...