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This may require some re-education, a kind of summer school of play that teaches kids not to expect to be entertained every moment, to adjust to days measured out not in periods or practices but in large clumps of opportunity called Morning and Afternoon. Go build a fort. Use...
CLEAN LIVING If seasickness doesn't make you turn green, then an encounter with Antarctica's pristine wilderness certainly will. This is the site of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, which is dedicated to preserving the continent's delicate environment.
Some critics say politics played a role in Taiwan's sclerotic containment efforts?specifically, that a hostile relationship between President Chen and the mayor of Taipei, Ma Ying-jeou, made coordination difficult. Rivals for much of the past decade, Ma unseated Chen in Taipei's 1998 mayoral election, sending him...
Rarely have a man and a moment been so wonderfully matched as in May 1940, when Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of Britain. His ascension was improbable. Churchill spent the 1930s in the political wilderness, calling for rearmament against Germany and, on his return to government in 1939, was limited...
Proponents of these new measures give two basic arguments. First, they claim that the logging will help to prevent forest fires, because if there are no trees, there cannot be any fire. Second, they tout the benefits to the economy of the region. Both of these rationales merely attempt to...