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...time to treat the Saudis like the friends they are. To continue to alienate and insult potentially friendly Arab nations by withholding AWACS planes [Oct. 5] is the height of stupidity...
Authorities released no further information on Gilbert. His name is not listed in the Cambridge telephone directory, nor does it appear in newspaper stories written during the late '60s describing Weatherman actions in Cambridge during the height of its activity here...
Over the past two decades, he has seen considerable evolution in the subjects and styles of student writing. About ten years ago, for example, during the height of student political activism, Engel says students were much more "consciously literary" than they are now, producing more imitative work. "I had a sense then that students were reading to save their lives, reading with great intensity....The political nature of the time had something to do with it. There was a kind of urgency that there isn't now," he says. But since that tumultuous period, which he said had "the highest...
Someone with Western sensibilities might think the gorge was carved out of the mountains by the river to cater to the needs of the men who traverse it. But to the generations of pilgrims who have travelled through, the gorge and the road are an illusion. Reality is the height and the rarefied air that surrounds the mountains, and the road is just a path to the summit...
...horizontally, under modest pressure, against the blades of the turbine. The machines look something like submarines sitting on the bed of the river. Traditional hydroelectric dams like the Hoover Dam on the Arizona-Nevada border must be hundreds of feet tall so that the water can fall from great height and with huge force and speed against the turbines. Although low-head dams are widely used in Europe, relatively few of those in the U.S. generate electricity...