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...east entry get a special bonus. Acapella groups, drama clubs and orchestras vie forHolworthy East's prime window space, hoping tohang banners out of the first-year rooms in returnfor free tickets. At the opposite end of the Yard,much-covetedGrays also features largecommon rooms with scenic views. Wood floors andprivate bathrooms make this dorm the mostluxurious in the Yard...
...million. I look around at her watercolors, the antique duck decoy, some African artifacts, and memorize the pattern in the Oriental rug while she slowly removes the screen from the fireplace, chucks in a couple of corn husks, stokes the embers a bit here and there, and shoves the wood around...
Iowa painter Grant Wood placed the plow in the foreground of his landscape Fall Plowing, which hangs behind the desk of John Deere president David H. Stowe Jr. The painting has been used in countless texts on art and history and is worth more than $1 million. By 1922 nearly 700,000 moldboard plows were being built by all U.S. manufacturers. Then came the giant rubber-tire tractors that made it possible to link as many as 24 plow bottoms that turned the earth in great rooster tails as if it were water off the bow of a ship...
...Business is the real force behind the government's policy. "The antiecology lobby is better organized than we are," says Alfredo Sirkis, head of Brazil's Green Party. "What does sustainable development mean in the Amazon? The big polluters are hiding behind these two words." In fact, a wood-pulp producer in the Amazonian state of Para has described as "sustainable development" a plan to clear-cut 5,000 hectares (12,000 acres) of virgin tropical forest and replant the area with eucalyptus trees...
Comfortably ensconced in his wood-paneled office at the State House, the Cambridge senator--whose district includes Cambridge, Watertown, Belmont and parts of Allston-Brighton--says he cannot chart his political career. Many political supporters, however, say that he is destined for a higher post...