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...population explosion does not directly threaten Russia, Japan, Europe, Australia, Canada or the United States, the "rich nations." As they industrialized they broke the fertility barrier. Most of them are growing less than one per cent a year, and can expect to reach zero population growth within a generation or two. At worst population pressure will cause job and housing shortages. For the rest of the world, however, population growth is a problem on an entirely different scale. They are growing on average two and a half per cent a year, which works out to twelve times a century...
...admitted she couldn't answer her own question, and someone else said, half-seriously, that classical relations of love were simpler and better. "Which classical relations?" a third person asked innocently. "You mean like Confucius?" Everyone laughed--in fact, everyone laughed a lot, and in general, despite the language barrier, the atmosphere reminded me more of seeing old friends for the first time in a long time than of the other meetings we'd been having in China...
However, Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, challenges this opinion, maintaining that there is no racist barrier to his authority, and says he feels that "blacks who think they are powerless are suffering from pathological paranoia...
...once again ankle-deep in sea water. Though floods have plagued Venice for centuries (one was recorded in A.D. 885), lately they have been getting worse. Main reason: to permit the passage of large ships, the Italians have widened and deepened the three channels through the 38-mile-long barrier beach that protects the Venetian lagoon from the high tides of the Adriatic...
...across the canal with our main forces lined up behind on the West Bank. Which is better, to be in close contact with the enemy or on the other side of a water barrier?" Warned Gamassy...