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...area the size of Iraq -- of the Amazon rain forest. He blew up airstrips used by gold miners who had invaded Yanomami Indian lands in the country's far north and made recognition of native territorial claims a top priority. The most visible symbol of environmental progress could be seen by satellite: the rate of destruction of the rain forest dropped 27% from...
...ultimately, Kevin is a symbol of being found. Of creating a home for himself and for his family and for other readers and writers in poetry. Of using words to give identities and ideas a place. And then the publishing and the prestige become incidental. "On planes and shit, when people ask me what I do, I say 'I guess I write poems,"" he tells me. "And they say, 'Oh, do you do that on the side?" On the side? What is that ? write poetry, and then I live on the side...
...What we tried to do last year was to educate people about why this is a hurtful symbol," Nelson says. "It was educative in the sense that you can't assume that all student know [what the flag means to Blacks], and it was activist in trying to get the administration to do something,...which failed...
Other students, however, are willing to givetheir classmates more credit. "I think it prettymuch runs the spectrum," says Oxley. "I don'tthink it's a status symbol or anything. It's justsomething people choose...
...most famous book, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, topped bestseller charts in 1955. On its way to becoming a cult classic, the book transformed the gray flannel suit into a symbol of conformity for an entire generation...