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...emphasized the mission's importance. They are trying to entice the Russians into other joint space ventures-if only to keep alive the badly curtailed U.S. manned space program. As one NASA official put it: "Keep in mind that the U.S. has no additional manned space activities on tap until the 1980s...
...immediately reach the consumer. The maligned space program, for instance, has produced satellites and observatories that can survey a nation's military potential. Such hardware is the unspoken guarantor of the SALT talks between Russia and the U.S., and perhaps of detente itself. Geologists have begun to tap the geothermal energy of volcanoes in Mexico and the Azores. New offshore oil deposits have been discovered in such economically eroded countries as Italy and Britain. Researchers have just discovered a new subatomic particle. True, the explorers are not certain about what they have found; pure science seldom knows until years...
Reason for the planned cutback, according to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau: Canada's tar-sands oil reserve probably totals around 500 billion bbl., equal to that of the Middle Eastern nations but contained in sands deep beneath the Alberta soil and thus far too expensive to tap. Canada cannot even take full advantage of all the oil that it is now pumping; a cross-country pipeline goes eastward from Alberta and Saskatchewan only to Toronto. Thus, while Canada exports some of its western production to the U.S., it is forced to rely on imports to supply its eastern provinces...
...book, Wishes, Lies and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry, a collection of kids' poems prefaced by some lengthy remarks on teaching. I was intrigued with Koch's central idea: people's imaginations are more readily available to them when they are young; it's important to tap that flow before it is turned off. A teacher of writing and performance of poetry at Radcliffe, Ruth Whitman, once wrote--and Koch would agree--that children "are still close to the elemental sources, they are naturally honest, their mythmaking and imagemaking apparatus is close at hand." These seemed incontrovertible truths when...
...housing--is better than in other states. Better, for instance, than on the eastern seaboard. This doesn't make that fate any better. Interstate migrancy has diminished due partly to mechanization, and partly to other forms of labor exploitation such as day-haul programs, which make it possible to tap the large pool of unemployed in the cities. In any case, being a seasonal laborer, migrant or non-migrant, means dangerous work (farm work is the third most dangerous occupation in California), low wages, abysmally low yearly incomes, unemployment and poor or nonexistent housing...