"Weeds in My Garden: Observations on Some Misunderstood Plants," by Charles B. Heiser (Timber Press, 2003), covers fewer species, but offers some wonderful insights on their virtues.
Instead of trying to duplicate growth patterns that are foundering on the coasts and in countless Rust Belt cities, the denizens of the zone of sanity need to learn how to build on their virtues of stability and affordability.
Expressed more elaborately – it is a book containing the names and descriptions of plants, usually with information on their virtues (properties) – and in particular their medicinal, tonic, culinary, toxic, hallucinatory, aromatic, or magical powers, and the legends associated with them.
But host Rachel Maddow of MSNBC is expected to invite participants to point out their rivals' flaws and to pitch the public on their own virtues.
This assumption that white men are uniquely qualified and will only be replaced by an incompetent who is only going to get on by virtue of their gender or colour is not only wrong, but maddeningly ironic.
Education-conscious -- make that education-obsessed -- parents sweat it out with their sons and daughters, coaching them on essays that extol their virtues as scholars, community activists and creative souls, nudging their test grades with special preparatory courses.
And do wind, water and solar power really have the pastoral qualities they take on here, so only their virtues are recognized and not their costs, while technologies like desalination receive short shrift?
She goes on the road describing their virtues to Rotary and ladies' clubs She feels that an investment consultant is as much a family adviser as the family doctor.
The theory is that, on their road to virtue, advanced countries will develop and transfer clean technology to poorer ones.
Sometimes it is easy to forget what players put themselves through for the good of those watching: Wigan's crumpled in a heap at full-time, with Hull's on their feet by virtue only of the adrenaline that comes with victory.
