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...years ago, in Rowe, Mass, (pop. 260), a one-store mountain town on the Deerfield River not far from the old Mohawk Trail, they put up a brand-new nuclear reactor that turned out to be one of the U.S.'s largest. Owned by the Yankee Atomic Electric Co., a combine of a dozen New England utility firms, the reactor is worth $57 million; last year it hummed out more than a billion kilowatt-hours of electricity. It is by far Rowe's biggest industry, and Postmaster Wendell Bjork-who owns the town's general store-estimates...
...probably work out a compromise eventually. But even then, the Panama Canal problems will not be ended. The canal has long ago ceased to be a vital military waterway for the U.S., and as an avenue of world trade it is rapidly growing obsolete. What is needed is a brand-new canal...
Objections to Christian Belief is a brand-new volume of theological essays -written not, as the title suggests, by ardent atheists but by four devout Anglicans, three of them priests. They are among the dozen or so English academic divines known as the Cambridge Theologians, who today are producing some of the world's most provocative and searching studies of religious issues...
...knowledge of the case would ensure justice was questionable from the start, and the notion spread that if a juror had information about the crime, he ought to serve as a witness instead. By the 18th century, the practice of disqualifying such jurors was generally accepted, and in its brand-new Constitution, the fledgling U.S. Republic guaranteed defendants the right to trial by an impartial jury of their peers...
Every day is a brand-new pharmaceutical event for Monk: alcohol, Dexedrine, sleeping potions, whatever is at hand, charge through his bloodstream in baffling combinations. Predictably, Monk is highly unpredictable. When gay, he is gentle and blithe to such a degree that he takes to dancing on the sidewalks, buying extravagant gifts for anyone who comes to mind, playing his heart out. One day last fall he swept into his brother's apartment to dance before a full-length mirror so he could admire his collard-leaf boutonniere; he left without a word. "Hey!" he will call out. "Butterflies faster...