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Similarly, the U.S. can probably maintain exclusive use of Tranquillity Base, even though such an act might seem the equivalent of appropriating part of the moon. NASA could claim that admitting any other nation's spacemen might interfere with scientific investigation. The "appropriation" of 60 Ibs. of moon rocks is also legitimate under the treaty, a point not likely to be contested in view of the fact that the U.S. will share the information it gleans from the samples with scientists of all nations. But the U.S. is prohibited from making a profit on the rocks. If commercial mining...
...though a Luo, was also a national leader of the Kenya African National Union (KANU), the Kikuyu-controlled ruling party. Hence it was startling that Njoroge turned out to have been an active, though minor figure in KANU. It seemed probable that Mboya's assassination was a political act motivated by a power struggle inside his party...
Each day, Detroit, Cleveland and 120 other municipalities fill Erie with 1.5 billion gallons of inadequately treated wastes, including nitrates and phosphates. These chemicals act as fertilizer for growths of algae that suck oxygen from the lower depths and rise to the surface as odoriferous green scum. Commercial and game fish-blue pike, whitefish, sturgeon, northern pike-have nearly vanished, yielding the waters to trash fish that need less oxygen. Weeds proliferate, turning water frontage into swamp. In short, Lake Erie is in danger of dying by suffocation...
...committee stated that, "A university committee unlike a court, has no way by the power of bailiffs or the use of contempt proceedings to protect itself against disruption or harrassment, not is there any precedent at Harvard for public meetings held to act on cases of possible Faculty misconduct...
Conventional documentary style, largely derived from English and French films of the thirties, exposes contradictions through reconstruction's. In the spring issue of Film Quarterly, Judith Gollub says that what attracted Alain Robbe-Grillet to the cinema was its ability to act on two sense simultaneously in a dialectical movement of statement and negation; in other words, soundtrack and image allow for greater possibilities of contradiction. Conventional documentary reconstructs reality through editing and asynchronous sound (voiceovers, etc.) and techniques borrowed form fictional narrative-music, establishing shots, distant shots, etc. Often, conventional documentaries contain footage shot in direct cinema style; however...