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Bleak Future. Although man began to mine silver on a small scale in about 2500 B.C., Patterson says that it was not until Rome took control of the silver mines in Iberia that it was able to attain the economic strength necessary for the rapid expansion of the empire. Silver production, mainly in Iberia, peaked between 50 B.C. and A.D. 100, when some 30,000 tons were extracted; Roman legions were furnishing 30,000 fresh slaves a year then to maintain the ranks of miners at 150,000. By the 3rd century A.D., as production steadily decreased, Roman coins...
...Achieving any of these goals will not be easy. They will, in fact, be impossible to attain unless American women, both in and out of politics, demand a lot more of themselves and their daughters. In her classic treatise on womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir accused "the second sex" of exhausting its courage in dissipating mirages and stopping at the threshold of reality. She may be right. If they really want to liberate themselves and to create the kind of world they talk about, women must start thinking less about consciousness-raising and more about stepping across that threshold. ∎Ruth...
...occasionally this kind of thing can attain a nagging sense of significance...
...Pakistan's President Agha Mo hammed Yahya Khan was loath to let Mujib attain power in the central government, and he was even less inclined to grant greater autonomy to East Pakistan. The subsequent crackdown by Pakistan's army, resulting in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of East Pakistanis, has made a political settlement even more remote...
...uneasiness to individuals rather than to structures we reassure ourselves that the world has a human face, that if we only could root out the bad guys, vote in our own people (elect a new President), the harmony of our situation could be restored, life would attain once against its manageable shape...