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Like any high church, West Point relishes pomp. On crisp autumn Saturdays, tourists flock to the vast greensward known as the Plain to watch the corps of cadets parade by in their gray swallowtail coats adorned with gold braid. The essential West Point, however, is never on public display. It is hidden behind stone battlements, in bleak inner courtyards of black asphalt. In these forbidding surroundings, the rite of passage into the Long Gray Line begins every July with a seven-week ordeal that is officially labeled Cadet Basic Training but is better known as Beast Barracks. Plebes are weaned...
Earth's biodiversity (short for biological diversity) is organized into three levels. At the top are the ecosystems, such as rain forests, coral reefs and lakes. Next down are the species that compose the ecosystems: swallowtail butterflies, moray eels, people. At the bottom are the variety of genes making up the heredity of each species. How much biodiversity is there? Biologists have described a total of between 1.5 million and 1.8 million species. Yet this impressive achievement is only a small beginning. Estimates of the true number of living species range, according to the method employed, from 3.6 million...
...answer written questions submitted by the Press Association, which released the answers along with information from palace archives. Now it can be told: the young prince likes techno music, fast food and computer games. He likes shopping for his own "modern" clothes but also likes his Eton uniform: swallowtail jacket, striped trousers and starched shirt. Although his mother once mentioned that she wanted him to go to Harvard (his father went to Cambridge), he declined to say what university he wants to attend. When he got hit on the head by a golf club at age eight, he didn...
...Boca Raton for more than 10 years, has traveled through the South and to Europe, and had her own history come alive when she talked to someone who remembered a great-grandfather in Missouri, a circuit-riding Baptist minister who, she says, "wore a tall silk hat and a swallowtail coat and taught hellfire and brimstone...
...Some sports are unique to the school, like the Wall Game, in which it is virtually impossible to score because the players are huddled in a permanent, muddy scrum against the wall. The last goal was recorded in 1909. Uniforms are complicated. There are variations on the famous black swallowtail coat. Seniors who belong to Pop, an elite self-elected group of academic and sport leaders, have their own version. So do "tugs," the academic upper crust...