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Pollination panic: honeybees are in trouble. can native pollinators rebound to fill the gap?
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November 1, 2008|
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Outside my office window as I write this article, I can see the tomato plants in our garden heavy with fat, red fruits, like strings of big Christmas bulbs. Perhaps my favorite part of gardening is its alchemical quality, the way a crop seems to come out of nothing. The transformation of dirt and air and sunlight into a perfect tomato seems no less miraculous than the transformation of lead into gold, and it always makes me feel hopeful, secure in the natural world's generosity.
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Picking up a newspaper, though, I get a very different ...
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'Mikado' makeover; Fulton production puts swinging twist on Gilbert and Sullivan classic
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`Mikado' takes to stage, screen
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Directing Mikado' a natural for new Skylight chief
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`Hot Mikado' revival doesn't sizzle like original
Newspaper article from: News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL)
; ...Lehman and Felicia P. Fields star in Hot Mikado playing through June 29 at the Marriott...The Marriott Theatre production of Hot Mikado was one of the joys of the 1993 season...Fields sings and Ted Levy dances. Hot Mikado is the swing-era version of the 1885...
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Actors make 'Mikado' fun
Newspaper article from: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
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`Hot Mikado' roars with style at the Marriott
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL)
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Japan gets topsy-turvy in 'Mikado'
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Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL)
; ...immensity of the task of creating a Mikado Version 2.005 - were Gilbert and...of his own London home. Redoing The Mikado has been a popular sport for years. Lyric Opera of Chicago did a "hot" Mikado set in current day Japan and a member...
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Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
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Gilbert & Sullivan in Dancing Shoes / `Hot Mikado' a jazzy update in San Jose.(Review)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle
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