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...While old, rickety wooden mills dot ranchlands across Texas - pumping water for stock tanks and standing as emblematic silhouettes of the Old West - their modern 400-ft.-plus-tall steel counterparts have sprung up across the state, pushing Texas into the lead over California as the country's top wind-energy producer. With the backing of environmental groups and the support of the state's conservative Republican leadership, wind-energy projects are increasing in number...
...alien spheres, Japan) in the name of progress, which then turn around and bite us, often literally. This view is not necessarily incorrect, and Crichton has expressed it in some first-rate, even prescient, works of genre fiction, notably Congo and Jurassic Park. (Crichton is in real life famously tall--he's usually reported as 6 ft. 9 in.--and one wonders if that helps him see what's coming ahead of the rest...
...Tony Snow as its next presidential candidate. He is vigorous and intelligent and has a way with words. Unlike most of our politicians, he is neither stodgy nor crooked. He has a sense of humor and is fatally handsome in the bargain. In both stature and character, he's tall enough that we can look up to him. He's just the leader we need in our highest office. Richard H. Utt Loma Linda, California...
...with the consequences of human efforts to shape nature. But where MacLean takes viewers miles above his subjects, Spirn forces them to look even more closely than they normally might. In 1986’s “Column of Victory, Army of Trees,” an infinitely tall stone column rises above small, newly planted trees on a rising hill. At first, this photograph appears to depict a neat landscaping job; upon closer examination, however, gaping holes emerge. Large tree stumps rest between the newly planted trees, serving as powerful commentaries on the destructive potential of human action...
...Tony Snow as its next presidential candidate. He is vigorous and intelligent and has a way with words. Unlike most of our politicians, he is neither stodgy nor crooked. He has a sense of humor and is fatally handsome in the bargain. In both stature and character, he's tall enough that we can look up to him. He's just the leader we need in our highest office. Richard H. Utt Loma Linda, California, U.S. Snow may be the slickest press secretary in years, but that still makes him little more than the Bush Administration's court jester...