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...Aires 82 Rome 81 Karachi 81 Istanbul 76 Vienna 75 Rabat 75 The Hague 73 Rio de Janeiro 71 Copenhagen 70 Cairo 62 The U.N.'s survey was based on the experience of its own civil servants, who live on middling but tax-free incomes; thus the figures reflect not the cost of living of native citizens but that of foreigners living on foreign incomes...
Plants that grow in the open waste a large part of the sunlight that hits them. Their leaves look green because they reflect most of the green and yellow light at the center of the visible spectrum. Their chlorophyll absorbs chiefly red and blue light, so only a small part of sunlight's total energy is used to turn water and carbon dioxide into sugar, cellulose and other materials that plants need for growth...
Reaching upward everywhere-from new apartment buildings in once-devastated Cologne, from the hunting lodges of the Harz Mountains as well as the malty rathskellers of Bavaria-the television aerials of West Germany pull down programs with a standard of excellence unparalleled in the world. They reflect the variety of the national interest rather than its lowest common denominator-and until this month all this was achieved on a single channel operating just five hours a day. Now a second, supplementary channel has been introduced, and every night last week announcers on both channels were generously falling all over themselves...
They did it by taking control of Alleghany Corp., the vast Manhattan holding company whose direct assets ($122 million) by no means reflect the power it exercises over the U.S. economy. Besides having a controlling interest in the New York Central and substantial chunks of the Baltimore & Ohio and Missouri Pacific railroads, Alleghany controls Minneapolis' Investors Diversified Services, a $3.4 billion investment giant that includes the world's largest mutual fund. In the biggest and bitterest proxy fight in U.S. history, the Murchisons snatched Alleghany out of the hands of Woolworth Heir Allan P. Kirby, 68, a Wall...
...There is also the settled villagers' nostalgia for a happier nomadic past, and repeated echoes of Nasr-ed-Din, the great comic hero whose wit and clownish wisdom have enlivened Turkish bazaars for 700 years. For the most part the author's philosophy seems to reflect Memed's own mood, benign in the midst of violence: "What good men there are in the world...