Word: wilderness
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...have developed some pity for oil company executives. There is not much oil left in the world, certainly not enough for oil companies to increase their reserves (oil in the ground that they own) to match world consumption. To keep investors happy, they have to go into weirder and wilder parts of the world to augment their reserves: places that are getting more and more expensive to buy into. Try as they might to move into other compelling energy investments whether renewable or otherwise, the market does not seem to reward creative thought among energy executives. As a result most...
...There is a reluctance on the part of African Americans and whites to deal with slavery," says former Virginia Governor Doug Wilder, who conceived the National Slavery Museum, scheduled to open in 2007. "People don't want to discuss it. 'Let's get past it,' they say. Well, I say that attitude is insulting to our history. We need to develop a conscious awareness of how far we've come...
...museum envisioned by Wilder, a descendant of slaves, will unabashedly be a museum about the brutal merchandising of human beings. The Freedom Center in Cincinnati, which cost $110 million to build and hopes to attract 250,000 visitors each year, has wider ambitions. Or looked at another way, it's more circumspect about its approach to a difficult subject. Even the center's name sidesteps the loaded word slavery. By taking the Underground Railroad as its focus, the center gets to emphasize biracial resistance, not racial victimization, a rare triumph of black and white cooperation in those days...
...gather to watch the latest episode of “Sex and the City” or “The Simpsons.” Some may hop on the T to catch dinner in the North End or watch a musical in Boston. Perhaps the wilder ones wander to the Quad to drink and dance the night away. But, to the impressionable prefrosh, I would just like to say: Remember that whatever it is you choose to do, there will be many others here who want to share in the fun with...
First mandolins--H. S. Clark, R. H. Eggleston, F. A. Hardling, A. H. Metcalf, N. W. Niles, F. L. Preston, S. J. Smith, J. R. Suydam, H. G. Tomlin, H. M. Wilder...