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...Wright Morris' lesser and funnier novels, Love Among the Cannibals, some American tourists are marooned in the boiled-water area of Mexico when their great, gaudy auto breaks down. The natives do not bother them, but each morning there is less of the ridiculous vehicle left. The door han dles and the four wheels go first; a day later the sparkplugs, carburetor and windshield; finally the engine block, dashboard and radiator...
...given last year, but certainly welcome this year, is Gov. 121, "Bureaucracy," an understanding of the contents of which is prerequisite for success in anything. On the necklace of history courses at eleven, the brooch is History 184a, which emphasizes Chinese thought from the Han dynasty to the Ch'ing dynasties. For diversion there are introductions to Czech and Polish (Slavic Ca and Da) and Hittite (Linguistics 225). The last presumes no previous knowledge of cuneiform and should just round out you Gen Ed program...
...soldiers of China's Han dynasty, pushing west, garrisoned the Gerghana oasis in what is now Iran. The consequences were silk and pestilence: merchants for the first time had a protected land route to carry their goods-and their ills-between China and the Mideastern Parthian empire (with the Roman dominions beyond). The opening of the silk road effected what Historian William McNeill calls the "closure of the ecumene"-his term for the great community of civilization, thus linked together across the land mass of Eurasia from extreme East to farthest West. From that time or even earlier, there...
...Walker Hill (named after the late U.S. General Walton Walker, who commanded U.N. forces during the Korean war) began when its architects, who had never designed a hotel, positioned bungalows so artistically-and precariously-on the hillsides that a good rainfall threatened to slide them majestically into the Han River; the management is now frantically planting trees to stop mud slides. Then public funds appropriated for the project mysteriously started turning up in private pockets; eight top Walker Hill officials are currently under arrest or investigation for embezzlement and bribery. So bad was Walker Hill's credit rating that...
...that would accept his missionaries. Only ten of the nation's 275 kibbutzim agreed to the idea, and even then the first team that went out to a Negev collective last year found it hard to make friends. The second group, twelve young Germans installed at Kibbutz Ba-han on the Jordan frontier, has had an easier time. Each morning they rise at 5:30 a.m. and head for their assigned chores. Some work on tractors, others in cauliflower gardens or the citrus orchards. Admits a leader of the collective: "We were short of hands until they came along...