Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...region's six nations, therefore, may be confronting a bleak Malthusian future in which the most basic needs of their populations will fatally outstrip the productive potential of the land. A U.S. intelligence analyst speculates, "We don't know if the Sahel countries will even be here in ten years...
...appears as more than a hazy disk in earth-bound telescopes. Last week, as the Mariner 10 passed only 400 miles from the planet, some of the mystery about Mercury was finally dispelled. Radioing back the first close-up pictures of the Mercurian surface, the robot ship unveiled a bleak, cratered and totally forbidding world...
World Bank Economist Irving Friedman traces the problem to the widespread unemployment, bleak breadlines and political upheavals of the Depression, which was ended only by a cataclysmic world war. That experience has haunted the economic memory of the world ever since, he believes, and caused governments in effect to enter into a new social contract with their citizens under which they pledged never willingly to risk such suffering again. In the U.S. and Canada the contract has been enshrined in laws that require Washington and Ottawa to work always for the highest possible employment. In other nations the commitment...
...burn up the world. For the sake of the race Prometheus must go. To be replaced by whom? Atlas, Heilbroner proposes, the burden bearer rather than the problem solver: the man who plays life not to win but to survive. Before a reader is carried away by this bleak neomythology, he should ask: Just what are Heilbroner's deep apprehensions based upon? A few data (mostly projected) and a lot of intuition. Futurology, as Heilbroner is the first to admit, is a game that takes place in its own outer space...
...giant nine-fingered monkey, birds, fish and reptiles, some of them so large they are recognizable only from the air. For decades these ancient patterns, spreading across 30 miles of Peru's desolate Nazca plain, have confounded archaeologists. Why were they so painstakingly etched out of the bleak mesa? Could they have been signals to the gods, or-as the current movie Chariots of the Gods? suggests-to extraterrestrial visitors...