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Steven C. Caton, acting chair of the anthropology department, introduced Chomsky as the inheritor to the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, Class...
Pilot-Whale strandings are nothing new for Cape Cod [Science, Aug. 12]. Henry David Thoreau, writing in the mid-19th century in his book Cape Cod, described beached whales. That was long before people started theorizing that agricultural runoff and global warming might be tainting the food chain and causing marine-mammal deaths. LEN SURETTE Santa Ynez, Calif...
...Alexis de Tocqueville --Holden Caulfield --Robert Frost --Gandhi --Seneca --J.F.K./R.F.K. --Yogi Berra --Thoreau...
From a look at the green-toned ads put out by companies such as Ford and the Southern Company, you would think that those in the executive suite spend their days meditating on the wisdom of John Muir and Henry David Thoreau. On the other hand, a look at the day planners of their Washington lobbyists suggests that as soon as these same executives step out of the public eye, they set loose their minions to undo every piece of environmental legislation past, present or future. Ford contributed heavily to the effort to defeat legislation mandating better gas mileage...
...fact that my microwave, coffee maker, toaster, computer, CD collection, textbooks and pants were seized by fire inspectors/bandits forces me to lead a simple, Thoreau-like existence...