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...others bemoan the container-cluttered American landscape. The people of Bowie, Md., want action. As a result, the Bowie city council has recently enacted an ordinance banning the sale of nonreturnable and nondisposable containers within city limits. The first local ordinance of its kind in the U.S., the Bowie law imposes fines of up to $100 a day and sentences of up to 30 days in jail-or both-on anyone found guilty of selling "illegal" containers after April...
...French colleagues who being much further left, glorify the role of worker and trade unions. But he does not "take very seriously" his image as the American sociologist in France. "I don't have any kind of complex." Instead Crozier muses on the ambivalence of his French colleagues-they bemoan American sociology as "so awful, horrible, and the chaining of the human race" precisely because "they believe it's so good...
...moralists and esthetes can only bemoan the vulgarity of Vegas. But the distant future may hold some hope. Las Vegas currently consumes 19 billion gallons of water a year, most of it pumped through wells from a water table that is fed only 3.72 in. of rain every twelve months. As a result, depletion of the water table over the past 20 years has caused the whole town to sink 3 ft. At that rate the earth may swallow up the city of Las Vegas-in a million years...
...innovative only at first; soon both their officials and their beneficiaries, such as subsidized farmers, share a vested interest in making eternal what no longer makes sense. Even after their purpose is achieved, federal agencies rarely fade away; they simply double their budgets and staffs. Even as Americans bemoan more taxes, federal largesse often makes them takers rather than givers...
French universities suffer from vast overcrowding (4,000 seats in the Sorbonne library for 40,000 students), a shortage of professors, medieval teaching methods, and harsh examinations designed to weed out students wholesale. On top of that, students bemoan antiquated curriculums. Most resented of all is France's grotesquely centralized educational bureaucracy. Last week, most major French universities or departments followed the lead of the University of Strasbourg and simply decided to secede from the system, declaring themselves autonomous...