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Those lines seem a modern rewrite of Genesis, Chapter 1. In fact, the words are far older. They come from a hymn of praise to a creator-god, written some 45 centuries ago and preserved in the buried remains of the ancient city of Ebla, in present-day Syria. Between 1974 and 1976, 16,500 tablets and fragments were unearthed by a team of Italian archaeologists at Ebla, perhaps the most complete record of an ancient civilization ever recovered...
...latest scholarly publications minimize the present-day importance of white racism and blame defects in black attitudes and skills for much of the still wide lag in income of blacks behind whites...
...population grows by about 300,000 a month, enough to fill a city the size of Toledo. Between now and the year 2000, the population of Los Angeles and that of the San Francisco Bay Area may both double. Baltimore's population could increase by the size of present-day Miami. There is a compelling need for the kind of long-term urban planning that draws on every available social and sociological discipline ?and imagination. Rouse says that "our cities grow by sheer chance, by accident, by the whim of the private developer and public agencies. A farm...
...land that spawned it is as long gone as the mule trouble which plagued Yoknapatawpha County. The pre-poured Sun Belt South has about as much a genuine sense of place as, say, Fall River. The old South exists solely in the mind and its juxtaposition with present-day Birmingham jars as awkwardly as the idea of putting a city with the Hellenic name of Athens in the middle of Georgia. The Asheville of Thomas Wolfe is a tourist trap of unremitting neon. Faulkner cruised the strip of Hollywood. The capital of the New South is Atlanta--a crypto-futuristic...
...30th book, Michener manages to cover 15,000 years of African history, from the ritual-haunted tribes of Bushmen to present-day Afrikaners obstinately jeering at appeals for "human rights...