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...ecosystem supporting the web of life? Dombeck hopes a plan being developed by a committee of scientists will offer a model of multipurpose, sustainable forest management. But pushing that plan through Congress and finding a way to finance it may be jobs so big that even Paul Bunyan couldn't pull them...
...does miniature golf make that special Saturday night so magical? Is it the nubby green turf? The plastic Paul Bunyan with a tiny golf ball-sized mouth? The tiny putters you get stuck with when all the adult-sized clubs have some-how disappeared? For Peter A. Gilchrist '00, Harvard's very own miniature golfing champion, "putt-putt golfing" has been the source of tremendous success...
...Ebbers has traveled a circuitous route to become the telecom industry's Southern-fried Paul Bunyan. After graduating from high school in Edmonton, Alta., Ebbers started out as a milkman but soon found that "delivering milk day to day in 30-below-zero weather isn't a real interesting thing to do with the rest of your life." A warmer clime beckoned in the form of Mississippi College, a Southern Baptist school in Clinton, Miss., where the Canadian won, of all things, a basketball scholarship and mostly rode the bench before graduating in 1967 with a bachelor's degree...
...freshest production is a real oddball: one of the few stagings ever done of Benjamin Britten's first opera, Paul Bunyan. Written to a libretto by W.H. Auden shortly after the composer and poet came to America as pacifists in the late 1930s, the work was conceived as a comic-populist valentine to their new country, one that would be suitable for school productions. Singable it is: the stream of songs and choruses exploits and gently parodies everything from American folksiness to Broadway jazziness, from Italian opera to Victorian ballads...
...Daniel's adventures with Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and John Henry that make this movie a good time. "Tall Tale" is the perfect study break. Not only is it capable of entertaining you and your small friends from Mission Hill, there's enough intelligent material to keep you from riding out of the theater and into the sunset...