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...trouble remembering: our very first day of school. He asks the audience to remember our parents leading us by the hand, to imagine their parents behind them and their parents behind them, and so on. He asks us to trace our entire lineage through the veins of a fallen tree leaf, which was given out before the play commenced. The point of this simple exercise of the mind, and of imagination, is to convey how every audience member watching “Mnemonic” comes from a common ancestor. Remembering such a bizarre scenario will definitely not require...
...here for a gallery of Barack Obama's family tree...
...true that you're named after your father's favorite actor, John Wayne? Terry Ramsdell, Ann Arbor, Mich. He was interested in finding a word that sounded like Wayne. He found a word, ying, which means the bud of a tree. But that word, as a name, is quite feminine. So because he wanted to name me after John Wayne, he ended up with a very feminine name...
...lives in Brooklyn, I don't have them. So I borrowed Marie Razafindrasolo's. She was my guide on a recent trip to Andasibe, where she pointed out a Parson's chameleon lying motionless on a branch and a panda-like indri dangling shyly from the top of a tree. Later Razafindrasolo took our group on a night walk through the fringes of the forest. She showed us golden Mantella frogs and leaf-tailed geckos and then, barely visible amid the trees, a pair of lemur eyes shining in the darkness, watching us. It was ecotourism at its best, travel...
...defeating. The Brazilians continue to struggle with deforestation, as illegal logging clears room for cattle grazing, but solutions are being created to allow for the use of the Amazon’s bounty without destruction. This summer the government began the profitable and heroic production of condoms from rubber tree plants. Hydroelectric dams are also being built and activities which do not produce smoke are being subsidized, like bee-keeping, fish-farming, and forest management...