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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Miami city commission is considering a novel scheme to help defray the operating costs of the city's new Claude and Mildred Pepper Fountain. A machine to be located nearby may charge citizens a rate of $21 an hour to turn on the pump. And, yes, it will accept credit cards...
...Francisco convention that founded the United Nations and became so fascinated by the country that he wanted to stay. He sent all his sons to American colleges, and he stays tuned to CNN on TV sets scattered through his palaces. Nonetheless, the presence of American troops cannot help intensifying the pressures on the kingdom to come further out of its isolation and into the modern world. Whether that can be done while maintaining the system of semifeudal family rule that Fahd has so far adroitly preserved is probably the biggest question still confronting Fahd -- or his successor...
...arrives in Grace. "I felt emptied-out and singing with echoes, unrecognizable to myself: that particular feeling like your own house on the day you move out." Codi believes that the brave one in the family is her sister Hallie, three years younger, who has gone to Nicaragua to help peasant farmers. "I'd spent a long time circling above the clouds, looking for life, while Hallie was living...
...these women, with Codi's help, who set out to save the town from the mining company. Kingsolver introduces other complications, particularly the fate of Hallie, who has been captured by the U.S.-supported contras. To say everything is resolved happily would be misleading, but one hint may be allowed. Anyone who thinks a giant mining concern is any match for the Grace Stitch and Bitch Club has a lot to learn about eco-feminist novels...
Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey G. Cox says he too has overhauled the structure of his popular course Moral Reasoning 30: "Jesus and the Moral Life," working on the theory that increasing the number of assignments will help students learn better...