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Roy Foster on the prize’s history and 2022’s theme: resisting the abuse of political power
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Roy Foster on the prize’s history and 2022’s theme: resisting the abuse of political power
Maine Humanities Council Discussion Project Growing Up Between Cultures Cultural and National Identity First Saturday of the month Beginning February 5 10:30am via Zoom Read your way to spring with Maine Humanities Council’s Discussion...
By Jim Shelton May 6, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this Hesperornis image provided by the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. (Photo: Robert Lorenz) If paleontologists had a wish list, it would almost certainly include insights into two particular phenomena: how dinosaurs interacted with each other and how they began to fly. The problem is, using fossils to deduce such behavior is a tricky business. But a new, Yale-led study offers a promising entry point — the inner ear of an ancient reptile. According to the stu...
Sun, 05/02/2021 - 1:38pm -- tim In Shrewsbury, Pierce's Store, reopened as a cooperative in 2009, is thriving. Manager Elana Levin was too busy for an interview. Photos by C.B. Hall by C.B. Hall, Vermont Business Magazine "If you don't have a store, you can't really have a town," Ripton resident and prominent environmentalist Bill McKibben wrote in a New York Times op-ed three years ago. It's a thought that haunts many Vermont towns, as general stores, long a sine qua non of village economies – and the Vermont brand – contend with today's economic forces. From Albany in the state's north...