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...help insulate the building while absorbing storm water, providing a natural habitat--and saving the company an estimated $35 million in construction costs and much more from lower energy use. Just as Henry Ford was the father of the Model T and modern mass production, his great-great-grandson says he wants to be a father of nothing less than a new industrial revolution...
...tribute to Ogden Nash's verse Requires a little life portrait of the man - what Time editors call bio-perse. Nash was the maternal grandson of a noted Louisville, Ky., feminist Who educated his own daughters and had them apply to Harvard using only their first initials on the applications and had the pleasure of seeing them accepted, then the pain of seeing them rejected for their sex, because at the time Harvard admitted no female, even if she was the world's leading Egyptian authority or Saudi scholar or Yemenist. Frederic Ogden Nash was born on August...
...that tourists will loot sacred grave sites. And while the tribe is seeking grants for roadside panels and interpretive centers, the message will be mixed. "Our people have for too long put on beads and feathers and danced for the white man," says Ronald McNeil, a great-great-great grandson of Chief Sitting Bull and president of the local community college. "Yes, we'll show how our ancestors lived when Lewis and Clark came up the trail. But then we must say what happened to them since. I'm tired of playing Indian and not getting to be an Indian...
...late 30s), I grew up not in a tightly knit urban Catholic enclave--most of my family emigrated to Britain from Ireland at the beginning of the last century--but in the booming suburbs of the 1960s and 1970s. My Irish grandmother was barely literate. Her grandson has an Ivy League Ph.D. But while my peers left the church or scorned its structures, I stayed. Even as I discovered that I was homosexual, I couldn't leave. I knew somewhere deep in my soul that God was real, that his church was essential, that the Gospels were true, that...
...Shwe may also be influenced by asean leaders who are fed up that Burma's pariah status has blackened the organization's reputation since the nation joined in 1997. And he may be concerned about his own legacy. A family man who dotes on his three daughters and one grandson, Than Shwe, some Burma watchers say, views the impasse with Suu Kyi as somewhat of a family squabble that he wants to set right. This theory has Than Shwe acknowledging that Burma's military has lost the love of much of the populace for holding on to power, and that...