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There are moments of self-indulgence on the stage, she confesses, when an opera singer wants to begin crying silently to the audience, "Love me. Save me." Such occasions do not occur often, but when they do, it is invariably because the singer is worrying about the effect she is...
An entomologist at the U.S. Forest Service's research labs in Corvallis, Daterman has been battling the Douglas-fir tussock moth, a major pest to the lumber industry in the Far West. In their larval stage, the voracious little insects can destroy a whole stand of valuable fir trees...
Early Warning. At present the Forest Service is deploying the chemical traps only as an early warning system to measure any sharp increase in the moths' population, which occurs about once a decade. But it is also considering stronger measures: spraying whole forests of firs with the love potion...
Sound Traps. Harris, who is a professor of architecture and electrical engineering at Columbia University, found that the problems with the old hall were not just the clouds and sound-absorbing upholstery, which had disappeared anyway in earlier renovations. The concave walls, designed to improve sight lines, turned out to...
Now Fallows translates this change of temperament into his writing, trying to blend but not resolve the personal and political, "on the one hand being sensitive about what's good in people...being willing to understand their human richness, while, on the other hand, you are still willing to say...