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...regaining ground lost to Russia during the Sixties. Russia has stood as the principal beneficiary of China's diplomatic isolation and America's quagmire in Vietnam. While China views the Russian threat in terms of encirclement, America's concern is on a more global scale commensurate with its wider influence...
...valleys known as hollows, Buffalo Creek Hollow (see map) echoes the contours of the twisting, snakelike stream from which it takes its name. It is one of the most densely settled areas of Logan County, with a dozen coal mines and more than 10% of the population. Not much wider than a football field at some points, the hollow forms a natural funnel from the dam to the Guyandot River 17 miles away. Often, a heavy rainfall is enough to flood the valley's 16 mining towns, many of which border right on Buffalo Creek...
Doubled Burden. Today, that hubris has been drowned in a rising sea of red ink. In 1970, federal, state and local governments spent $60 billion more than they took in, and the deficit certainly yawned even wider last year. Meanwhile, taxes keep going up and up. Though federal taxes have been reduced since 1960, the cuts have been offset by severe increases in state and city income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes and "sin" taxes on liquor and cigarettes. Between 1960 and 1970, the tax burden on each American man, woman and child almost doubled, from...
...Durins appeared to prove that some other count of differences in intelligence should butter to hereditary factors 20 per cent to . However, this conclusion is not acceptable, since it is based on populations living the homogeneous range of environmental encountered in Britain or the U.S.A. allow for the much wider range of environmental differences between western middle- families and African or Indian peasants or australian shoriginals, the propotions would be more nearly 50-50 or even reversed. In it is not very meaningful to try to reach as general figure, since the genes and the environment are not separate factors...
...year, most people found the course to be intensely rewarding not for the intellectual stimulation alone, but also because they had the opportunity to interact with problems in health care, food additive safety, energy production, government control of industrial pollution, and other areas, by first-hand experience in the wider community. Those who wished to do library projects did them--and they too had a hell of a lot to contribute to the discussion...