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Exporting Profits. Though they have been trading on the east coast of Africa for centuries, most of East Africa's Asians have taken root in this alien land only since 1895, when the British brought in 32,000 Indian workmen to build the narrow-gauge railway that opened the interior to colonization. Asians quickly turned from railroad building to trade, and so completely dominated commerce that until 1919 the rupee was the official currency of East Africa...
...Atomic Energy Commission originally insisted on controlling all exchange of information between the CEA staff and Soviet bloc scientists and wanted to place strict limitations on visitors to the accelerator. The Commission also demanded a long background information check on any alien employed...
...original contract also required that before the CEA employ any alien it make a detailed check of his jobs and addresses for the preceding 15 years. Limitations on visitors were very strict, and CEA officials were to be required to furnish a detailed report on the visit of every guest from a Soviet bloc country...
...world he disapproved of. Last week, at 81, the Lion of Morocco and survivor of 200 battles died quietly in bed of a heart attack, leaving behind one widow, eleven children, and a homeland saddened because his bones were laid to rest in a graveyard in alien Egypt...
...Personal God. Modern man finds it hard to sympathize with the prophets, Heschel argues, largely because Biblical thinking is so alien to his own. Unlike the Greek philosophers, or even Judaeo-Christian theologians of later years, the prophets did not think of God as a first cause or prime mover but as a person; they were unconcerned with what God is, but cared only for what he does and says. Unlike the mystics, the prophets did not express the ineffable glory of God, but spoke of specific situations-the machinations of Jewish foreign policy, or the selling of debtors into...