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Another sweeping promise of the Mexican revolution was agriculture-land for the landless and food for all. Yet half a century later, less than one-tenth of the country's acreage is under cultivation, much of it in the semi-arid north and much of that belonging to the controversial ejido collectives. Peasants are guaranteed a plot of land, but the farms are small, dry and often uneconomic, rarely exceeding twelve acres. Peasant families have trouble feeding themselves, to say nothing of providing food for a nation whose population grows by 3.5% annually...
...seriously depressed by automation, a mahout-maintained model with buck et seat, two-tone umbrella and stick shift costs up to $1,500 f.o.b. Bangkok, or about $4,000 delivered at the Bronx Zoo. In Thailand, a U-Ride-It elephant is still a bargain at $2.50 a day (one-tenth as much as a rented truck), and is still hard to beat when it comes to bird watching, spraying treetops or hauling logs. But it is impossible to find pachyderm parking space in Bangkok. Shrugs a taxicab mahout: "Elephant too much fighting, too much kicking, too much eating...
...these birds and mammals store up extra oxygen for their endurance dives was exploded long ago. Somehow they manage to survive on less oxygen rather than more. But how? Dr. Scholander soon found out that on submergence in a bathtub the seal's heartbeat is slowed to about one-tenth of its normal rate. This happens so fast that the trigger for the circulatory defense mechanism seems to be psychological rather than physical. Scholander's experiments proved this. A loud, sharp noise produces the same heart-slowing effect on a seal at the edge of a tank...
...suggesting a "neutralized" Viet Nam, hinted last week that France may establish diplomatic relations with Communist North Viet Nam). But whether Paris will fill the gap to be left by the elimination of a $30 million annual U.S. dole remains to be seen. France has been supplying Cambodia only one-tenth the U.S.'s contribution, mostly to maintain a 300-man force training the Cambodian army...
...example, it was "not only unnecessary but foolish" for Douglas backers to allow a change of procedure at the 1860 Democratic convention. At the beginning of 1860, 32 million "extras" stood behind the "odd stellar assortment" of political players in the sectional drama. And no moderate argument had "one-tenth the cumulative emotional impact" of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, which "extremists could not have managed better if they had written a script...