Heredity and Environment Shape Human Conduct
In this essay, Frank L. Oktavec discusses two forces in human behavior: hereditary factors and environmental input. It cites evidence from biology, anatomy, and animal breeding to argue heredity provides general growth patterns, while environment modulates rather than duplicates traits, noting no two individuals are identical except possibly identical twins.
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Beating Meat Prices With Hints From The Great White Father
A humorous, editorial style piece offers top tips to cope with rising meat costs. It parodies political correspondence with Washington and the Smithsonian, then parades cheesy schemes to obtain high protein food from friends, farmers, potlucks, and even a freezer keepsake Becker's Waterloo.
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Smithsonian Institution
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High School Band and Orchestra Plan Approved
The board of trustees allows high school students to pursue both band and orchestra, with a single instructor to manage both groups. The plan aims to streamline music instruction across ensembles.
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United States
New Theatre
Hoosick Falls
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On This Date: Carnegie Donation and Moon Landing Notes
On this date Andrew Carnegie gave 1.5 million dollars for The Hague Peace Palace. A 1926 RCA picturogram bank check transmission from London to New York was honored. In 1968 a South African Airlines jet crashed in Southwest Africa killing 122. In 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke landed on the Moon for the third U.S. lunar exploration.
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Vermont forest fire danger rises in early season
Forest fire danger is high and rising in Vermont woodlands according to E Bradford Walker chief of forest resource protection for the state Forest and Parks Department. He says early spring weather and snow melt in valleys and south slopes are starting an early forest fire season and urges fishermen hikers campers and all in or near the woods to use extra caution in the coming weeks.
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Montpelier
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Easter Reflection Poem on Faith Hope and Peace
A reflective poem from Arlington celebrates life in Christ and spiritual uplift. It contrasts worldly snares with divine love, urging renewal of innocence and the healing presence of the divine word. The piece envisions harmony between earthly striving and heavenly peace, ending with a call to listen to the still small voice.
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Christ and
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Lesson of the flowers from a childhood scene
A verse reflecting on Christ as a child with Mary guiding him through symbolic flowers. The lily stands for purity, violet for truth, daisy for confidence, pansy for friendship, and a bleeding heart appears as the boy plucks flowers on Hicks Avenue under Mrs Helena S Moore’s attributed lines.
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Lille
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