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What makes D.C. General so popular? The answer is simple and telling: it is the only hospital in the city that guarantees treatment regardless of ability to pay. In addition to a steady stream of desparately ill patients, D.C. General serves a regular group of homeless (who often just need a place to stay), mentally ill (some of whom must be restrained in a corner room) and drug abusers (who are known to attack the health staff...
...results are spectacular. The structure, built on a slope, is dominated by a soaring Amazonian rain forest, lush with 300 species of plants. At its periphery, tree ferns and bromeliads flank a stream that leads to a mountainside flood-plain forest and an open vista of tropical savanna. There, plants from Africa, Australia and South America bask in a less humid atmosphere, where bees and hummingbirds help pollinate plants and a colony of termites aids in the decomposition of dying material...
...transition zone of thorn scrub from Madagascar and Mexico leads onto a Baja California desert biome. The stream, meanwhile, meanders to the saltwater marsh (transported in sections from the Florida Everglades) that gives onto the 10.6-meter-deep (35-ft.) ocean with its own coral reef and waves that can rise as high as 1.2 meters (4 ft.). Mangroves in the marsh are host to frogs, turtles and crabs, and the ocean includes 1,000 species of plants and animals...
Every year a stream of unfamiliar faces and square brown boxes flows into Harvard Yard. But like most traditions here, eventually--and slowly--things change a little...
Inevitably, they spout a steady stream of happy chatter contending that Harvard has the most brilliant professors and the biggest libraries and the prettiest buildings in the Western Hemisphere...