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...Boulder, Colo., the three county commissioners voted earlier this month to revoke their endorsement of a nuclear-disaster evacuation plan proposed for their city by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which administers the nation's civil defense programs. The switch came after more than 1,000 residents crammed into a downtown theater and listened as speakers denounced the plans as "a grave joke" and "an illusion." Said Betsy Moen, professor of sociology at the University of Colorado: "The plan doesn't even mention radiation. Once a bomb is launched, it will be an all-out war and no community...
...cedar and other heavy drinkers) dictates what will flourish and what will wither; it decides whether the cattle and sheep will have enough range grass to grow fat upon. Water and brush run certain segments of the West Texas economy in an almost embarrassingly thorough way. Sisyphus rolled a boulder; a rancher in West Texas, tempted to reflect on the existential futility of life (and that must happen now and then), can contemplate his mesquite...
...very ineffectiveness of anti-apartheid protests ironically is one of the most potent arguments against immediate majority rule in South Africa, desirable as it is in the long run. Both the Afrikaners and the Blacks are intractable in their opposition to sharing power. Like two huge boulders pressed against one another, each refuses to budge. Only tremendous violence will break the impasse and bring immediate majority rule. Yet such revolution would only blow each boulder asunder--polarizing the races more than ever...
...second foray, the men light upon five more mustangs picking at strands of Indian rice grass in a boulder-strewn ravine. They manage to move the pack to a clearing but the lead stallion refuses to cooperate. He attempts to bring the others back downhill. Crawford gets the horses moving and then sweeps in suddenly at tree level, splitting off the leader and chasing him down a gully. Quickly he gets the other four moving toward the trap. Better to lose one than the pack...
...concept is known as a Woonerf, a Dutch word that might loosely be translated as "protected precinct." Right now, the Woonerf is spreading through Western Europe, and the concept, in whole or in part, is in use in Boulder, Colo., and Seattle, Wash., and under consideration in Washington, B.C., Portland, Ore., and New York City. "My own feeling is that we should slow down traffic, not keep it out of residential streets," says Donald Appleyard, professor of urban design at the University of California at Berkeley and author of Livable Streets. "And the Woonerfhas proved a great success in European...