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...Until recently, Sister Antoinette was part of that world. A trained botanist who moved from India to Melbourne to be with her brothers in 1994, Antoinette busied herself teaching disabled children, working in palliative care and delivering Meals on Wheels. "I worked day and night for two years, and I loved it," she recalls. All the while she harbored the desire for a more traditional life of prayer, and in 1995, after the death of her mother, she found the call too strong to resist. "There's no accounting for when Our Lord calls," explains Sister Veronica...
...probably did more than any botanist I know to bring botany to the people,” said Emily Wood, manager of the systematics collections at the Harvard Herbaria, who worked under Howard...
Richard A. Howard, a Harvard botanist known for exotic travels and innovative lectures, died at his home in Weston, Mass. on Sept...
...just back from fighting in the Pacific kept bringing strange problems to Howard when they learned he was a botanist. What should they eat if forced down in the jungle?” a 1953 article published in Newsweek read...
...moment to find something valuable?treasure, car keys, enlightenment?two feet in front of his shoes. As his World Cup squad played back-to-back friendly matches against Japanese club sides last Tuesday, Bielsa paced along the sideline, glaring at the carefully manicured grass like some demented botanist...