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...sign of black identity and pride." Interest in African culture, learning Swahili and wearing Afro hair styles are important to 45%-with almost 60% of the young blacks and those in the upper and upper-middle classes supporting these trends. When asked to state what will be needed to attain full equality in the next ten years, blacks showed a sense of self-reliance expressed in statements such as "Achieve equal educational opportunities with whites," "Greater unity among blacks," and "Blacks must keep pushing and fighting for equality." These assertions far outran such concepts as promoting communication, respect and understanding...
...been answered by two scientists using a standard aerodynamic formula. Assuming that Pteranodon weighed only 40 Ibs. (it had an extremely delicate skeleton), Geologist Cherrie D. Bramwell and Physicist G.R. Whitfield of the University of Reading in Berkshire, England, used the formula to calculate that the beast had to attain an air speed of only 15 m.p.h. to take off. In winds above that velocity, they report in Nature, Pteranodon would only have needed to spread its wings to become airborne, easily taking off from level ground or the crest of a wave. "Thus," conclude Bramwell and Whitfield, "many...
...common with your company. You are to be your own entertainment, a spectacle unto yourself. And you have come with the same purpose as the rest. You are here to chant, and pray, to embrace the all-knowing the all-powerful, the all-attractive. You are here to attain Krishna...
PASACHOFF had also proposed that NASA and Air Force use the SR-71, a high-flying reconnaissance plane, during the eclipse. Since the SR-71 can attain speeds of at least 2000 miles per hour-several hundred miles faster than the eclipse shadow at some points-it could prolong eclipse observation-time by an hour or more. The jet could also position itself anywhere within the moon's shadow...
Through his art Boll hopes to attain, as he describes the expression of one of his characters, "something between obsession and detachment, something magical." The magic succeeds for heartening reasons. Boll puts narrative above experimentation. His "neorealism" cares more for compassion than savage attack. His moral vision deals with the guilt in the technically innocent. Above all, Boll continues to be loftily serious about an age that many writers have given...