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...excites me is the prospect of [cultivating] a sense of the strange and the wondrous. The second was something that [English professor] Gordon Teskey said in a lecture. He was talking about how with poetry or literature or art it’s a little bit like taking a tree and making it into a table. The table is completely different from a tree, but in some ways it reveals the very heart of the tree, because you can see the grain of the wood in a way that you can’t when the tree is living...
...Felicity demanded that they stop to examine the male nudes, constantly bemoaning the placement of leaves or folds of cloth. Ollie was only too happy to encourage her.“Ah, signorina woulda like to have a little peek? She would like to see the trunk of da tree underneath da leaf?”“Perhaps you could tell me what kind of trunk I might be expected to find,” said Felicity, running her fingers down Prince Filippo’s purple velvet sleeve.“Ahem,” coughed Frederick...
...were about to quit for the afternoon on our tour through the Antasibe-Mantadia National Park in eastern Madagascar when the guide caught a flash of brown fur through the trees. He signaled to our traveling party silently, and we crept off the narrow path and through the thick tropical forest, hoping for a closer look. Russell Mittermeier, the president of Conservation International (CI) and a renowned primatologist, made the call. Tucked inside a hollow tree trunk were two greater bamboo lemurs, each the length of a forearm, staring back at us with orange eyes. We grabbed our cameras...
...volunteers from the Baptist Church had come by earlier in the day and cut down the battered, ancient oak tree that had shaded her backyard. It had fallen, ripped up by the winds like a weed. A small sign in the yard remained in place: "She who plants a garden, plants happiness." Her barbecue and garden shed had stayed put. Francis laughs but not heartily...
...give seven (of course!) common failure patterns, and they are not shy about listing the corporate Hall of Shame. The misbegotten strategies include Staying the (Misguided) Course (Kodak); Misjudged Adjacencies (Oglebay Norton); and Fumbling Technology (Iridium). But most relevant to the current Wall Street subprime crisis is the Green Tree Financial Corp. debacle. The firm made trailer-home ownership more accessible to low- and middle-income consumers. At its pinnacle, the company financed more than 40% of trailer homes, many with mortgages for people with bad credit. In 1998, Green Tree was bought by Conseco for a hefty $7.6 billion...