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...taken an economic beating at the hands of the white man since that guileless tribe gave up Manhattan for $24 in trinkets. Now a band of enterprising Navajos in Arizona hopes to Indian-wrestle some of their ancestors' money back. The group plans to build a $10 million resort on the shores of Lake Powell featuring a full-scale gambling casino. They should mine plenty of yellow iron-if the Arizona authorities let them get away with...
...abortion laws in the country, must cross the state line into Oregon. Women throughout the Southwest travel to California. Some go even farther. Though few women seem interested in going to Alaska, at least 500 mainlanders are known to have taken advantage of Hawaii's liberal attitude and resort atmosphere...
Since it's impossible to keep thieves from getting in--smashing the windshield is a convenient last resort--it's not wise to leave anything of value inside a car. If it has to be in the car, it's safer in the trunk than on the seat...
...days later the general turned up in Beirut with his twelve-year-old son. Sources who have seen him say that he seems subdued and regretful. But the old temper still flashes, and he was about to smash a Beirut photographer's camera at the mountain resort where he is staying when the Yemeni ambassador stepped in and cooled...
...refuse to get jobs behave as they do not because they are neurotic or because they feel alienated, but "because of defective social environments in homes, schools, factories and elsewhere." As Skinner sees it, environments are defective when they fail to make desirable behavior pay off and when they resort to punishment as a means of stopping undesirable behavior...