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Concentrating Rain. Most of the Negev gets less than 6 in. of rain per year, and it usually comes in winter in short, sudden downpours. It does not sink into the hard ground; it pours into the dry wadies, sometimes foaming all the way to the Mediterranean. The best way to make practical use of this sort of rainfall is to concentrate the water as much as possible where it will do the most good-which is exactly what the Naba-taeans did in the Negev. The more Glueck studied their works, the more he admired their industry and engineering...
...Sink or Swim. Home has considered the issue more carefully than he is often given credit for, is on record with a remarkable statement of Britain's domestic challenges. "For the trade unions," he has said, "the choice is whether to remain sunk in the stick-in-the-mud attitudes of the twenties and thirties, a prey to Depression fixations, meeting today's prosperity with yesterday's attitudes of mind, or whether to operate an up-to-date organization in modern conditions of affluence, where the object would be to produce as much wealth as possible...
...International Convention of Christian Churches, as the Disciples style themselves, could claim, with 1,800,000 members, to be one of the nation's largest indigenous religious bodies. But the Disciples still try to live by Barton Stone's belief that sects should "die, be dissolved, and sink into union with the body of Christ at large." The Disciples are one of six faiths seriously discussing Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake's proposal to create a great new superchurch that would be both "catholic and Reformed...
...Boston is the only team which has scored less than it has been scored upon. The sharp passing line of Johnny Bucyk, Murray Oliver, and Tom Williams will be the sole bright spot for Boston fans. The chicken wire defense and lack of offensive depth will, barring a miracle, sink the Bruins deeper than ever into the cellar...
...witnessed was but a manifestation of what I had seen a hundred times before during 7 years in tribal Africa. Perhaps, I mused, there is something to be said for tribalism after all: perhaps the urge to "belong," to be at one with a greater whole, to sink individuality into tradition and tradition into loyalty, is too strong for any of us to resist