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Much of the northern half of Brooklyn is turning into Bushwicks. The white neighborhoods in the south half--Midwood, Flatlands, Brighton Beach, Mill Basin, Canarsie, Bay Ridge--look north and fear, because the poverty seems to be creeping ever closer. And for many of these people there's nowhere left to run. They're willing to make their stand, as they put it, because somebody has to. The older people especially, with fixed incomes and meager lives, lock themselves in at night to avoid becoming victims and tremble at approaching footsteps in the day--they have no place...
Young Leakey's self-confidence was justified; the Turkana region has proved to be an anthropological mother lode. In a basin several kilometers deep, walls of strata lie exposed, many-layered sandwiches of volcanic ash and ancient sediments containing the remains of complete prehistoric environments. Organizing a team of fossil hunters, Leakey established a base camp at Koobi Fora, a mound at the inboard end of a long, crocodile-infested sand spit that curves out into the lake. Then he began following his nose?with remarkable success. Turkana has yielded the richest accumulation of remnants of man and his predecessors...
...chop up the floors, exposing the loot. Then the "mango hunters," as New York cops call them for their practice of reaping a harvest of stolen goods, move in, drag ou the fire-resistant fixtures and sell them -a bathtub is worth $25 on the open market, a wash basin $15. Some areas of New York are being burned systematical!) block by block as frightened resident; move out, slumlords make no move to protect their all but empty-and insured -buildings, and the torches move...
...their leaders were arrested or beaten by police. According to the reports, 4,000 strikers were fired, and others were sent off to work in other mining areas or on collective farms elsewhere in Rumania. Meanwhile, special militia detachments-called "butchers" by the miners-sealed off the Jiul basin area, and security police agents were infiltrated among the miners. The dissidents refer to them as "party dogs...
...river, which rises in southeastern Central Africa, more than 1,000 miles south of the equator and about a mile above sea level, and ends 3,000 miles later in the Atlantic Ocean. Forbath first saw the river as a journalist during the Simba uprising that bloodied the Congo basin in 1964. He has spent the intervening years assembling the story of what Central Africans call "the river that swallows all rivers." The result is an absorbing, fast-paced book that deserves to stand beside Alan Moorehead's White Nile and Blue Nile. Unlike the Nile, the Congo held...