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...brief, about a man caught stealing orchids in a swamp, struck her as “so peculiar” that she pitched the story to her editor, she said...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Orlean Discusses Book ‘Adaptation’ | 8/13/2004 | See Source »

...elaborate as the red spectral figures of the Kimberley region's Bradshaw paintings, they still inspire wonder, for the Ice Age hunters and their families here were living further south than anyone else then on the planet. Today this cave entrance looks west over a gully choked with soaring swamp gums and mottled dogwood trees, fallen logs and bark rotting at their feet under a damp smothering of moss, red mushrooms and the thick mulch of autumn's deluge of leaves. But if this art does date to the last Ice Age, its guardians - their bodies probably rubbed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Tunnel | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

Like Farkes and Salsgiver, Mann stayed close to Cambridge over the summer, playing for the Keene Swamp Bats of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL). Two summers ago, reigning Ivy Pitcher of the Year Trey Hendricks ’03, first emerged as a major hitting prospect while playing for the Swamp Bats, and now the soon-to-be senior Mann is attempting the same thing...

Author: By Lande A. Spottswood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Farkes, Salsgiver See Mixed Results at Cape | 7/23/2004 | See Source »

...radical move to the middle, a campaign that looks and sounds different from the usual partisan claptrap--one that features more ideas like Kerry's proposed reduction in the corporate tax in return for corporate-loophole closing--may be John Kerry's only chance to transcend the swamp gas that is threatening to engulf this long, long political year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Win Over A Nation Of Partisans | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...humans aren't aquatic. Most of us, in fact, wish the world were dryer, not wetter, and flooding tops the list of human grievances against the beaver. By raising water levels, its unkempt but admirably watertight dams can flood basements, swamp sewer systems, spoil trout streams and even derail trains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: I'll Be Dammed! | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

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